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From: "Jo Ann McGhee" <>
Subject: Obit - Emma (JOHNSON) FRENCH 1907-2004
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 13:12:01 -0500


Register-News, Mt Vernon IL, Wed 1 Dec 2004 issue
EMMA FRENCH
(includes photo)
Emma FRENCH, 97, of McLeansboro died 5:30 p.m. Nov. 29, 2004, at Health Care
Center in McLeansboro. She worked as a nurse's assistant at East Moline
Illinois State Hospital for several years and was a homemaker. Mrs. FRENCH
was born Aug. 20, 1907, in Hamilton County to John J. and Rilda Mae
(LAUNIUS) JOHNSON. She married Don FRENCH Oct. 1, 1925; he is deceased.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Thursday at Gholson Funeral Home in
McLeansboro. The Rev. John LEE Jr. will officiate. Burial will follow at
IOOF Cemetery in McLeansboro. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at
Gholson Funeral Home in McLeansboro.

Mrs. FRENCH is survived by sons Harold FRENCH and wife Marjorie of Port
Byron and Don LeRoy FRENCH and wife Marilyn of Kell; daughters Dolores YOUNG
of McLeansboro, Carolyn DANIELS and husband Gary of McLeansboro, Shirley
HOLLISTER and husband Jack of Port Byron and Barbara CHILDERS and husband
Donald of Mt. Vernon; 14 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; a
great-great-grandchild; and a brother, James J. JOHNSON of Cedar Lake, Ind.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, seven brothers and a
sister. Mrs. FRENCH was a member of McLeansboro First Baptist Church.
Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association and will be
accepted at the funeral home. For more information you may contact Gholson
Funeral Home at 643-2321.


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