1918
Ida
1999
Ida Mae French
September 6, 1918 — March 7, 1999
IDA MAE FRENCH OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI, WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 6, 1918, IN JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS, A DAUGHTER OF THE LATE FRED AND JULIA (JONES) CLARKE. IDA DEPARTED THIS LIFE SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1999, AT MINERAL AREA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF EIGHTY YEARS, SIX MONTHS AND ONE DAY.
IDA WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO THE LATE STANLEY FRENCH ON JULY 6, 1937, AND TO THIS UNION FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN.
IDA IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, JOHN FRENCH AND WIFE JO ANN OF IRONDALE, TWO DAUGHTERS, ARLENE JENKERSON AND HUSBAND KEITH OF PARK HILLS, PAMELA HELMS OF BONNE TERRE, ELEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, TWELVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE BROTHER, ROBERT CLARKE AND WIFE ALBERTA OF HAZELWOOD, THREE SISTERS, LOTTIE KUCINSKIS OF CALEDONIA, MINNIE (DANE) GRIFFITH AND HUSBAND EDWARD OF STONY POINT, ROSALIE SUTTON OF CALEDONIA AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND SPOUSE SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE DAUGHTER, MAXINE HOUSE, TWO SISTERS, RUTH LUCAS, MABEL CLARKE, THREE BROTHERS, FREDERICK, RICHARD AND JULIUS CLARKE.
IDA ENJOYED SEWING AND READING, HER RELAXING HOURS WERE SPENT WATCHING GAME SHOWS ON TELEVISION. IDA HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS EACH OF THEM HELD A VERY DEAR PLACE IN HER HEART.
VISITATION WAS HELD MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1999, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN IRONDALE.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1999, AT 2:30 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON CHAPEL WITH REVEREND GARY RHODES OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN BIG RIVER CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME, IRONDALE.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, DEWAYNE HOUSE, DALE HOUSE, JR., MATTHEW JENKERSON, BRIAN JENKERSON, DAVID WISDOM AND RON FRENCH.
IDA WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO THE LATE STANLEY FRENCH ON JULY 6, 1937, AND TO THIS UNION FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN.
IDA IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, JOHN FRENCH AND WIFE JO ANN OF IRONDALE, TWO DAUGHTERS, ARLENE JENKERSON AND HUSBAND KEITH OF PARK HILLS, PAMELA HELMS OF BONNE TERRE, ELEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, TWELVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, ONE BROTHER, ROBERT CLARKE AND WIFE ALBERTA OF HAZELWOOD, THREE SISTERS, LOTTIE KUCINSKIS OF CALEDONIA, MINNIE (DANE) GRIFFITH AND HUSBAND EDWARD OF STONY POINT, ROSALIE SUTTON OF CALEDONIA AND BY MANY OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS AND SPOUSE SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE DAUGHTER, MAXINE HOUSE, TWO SISTERS, RUTH LUCAS, MABEL CLARKE, THREE BROTHERS, FREDERICK, RICHARD AND JULIUS CLARKE.
IDA ENJOYED SEWING AND READING, HER RELAXING HOURS WERE SPENT WATCHING GAME SHOWS ON TELEVISION. IDA HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS EACH OF THEM HELD A VERY DEAR PLACE IN HER HEART.
VISITATION WAS HELD MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1999, FROM 5:00 P.M. TO 9:00 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME IN IRONDALE.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1999, AT 2:30 P.M. AT THE GUM & SON CHAPEL WITH REVEREND GARY RHODES OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN BIG RIVER CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF GUM & SON FUNERAL HOME, IRONDALE.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, DEWAYNE HOUSE, DALE HOUSE, JR., MATTHEW JENKERSON, BRIAN JENKERSON, DAVID WISDOM AND RON FRENCH.
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