 Favre was born in Gulfport , Mississippi , the son of Bonita Ann ( née French ) and Irvin Ernest Favre , and raised in the small town of Kiln . Both his parents were schoolteachers in the Hancock County School District . He is of part French ancestry . One of his ancestors is Simon Favre , an influential figure in Spanish West Florida in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries ; Brett descends from Simon 's Choctaw Native American mistress , Pistikiokonay , and thus his grandfather was affiliated with the Choctaw . 
