We laughed with you, we cried with you We spent our days growing up with you Now and forever, we remember you! To the classmates who have gone before us, we dedicate these pages to their memory... They are gone, but not forgotten. If for some reason you do not want an obit, cause of death or even a name on the memorial page, please email me, Beth @: frenchhighschool@aol.com.. I apologize for any hurt I may cause the family.. The Early years The Empty Chair We gather here, a class once more, To reminiscence, like years before, Upon the days and joys we knew, before our school-aged time was through, Yet, as we meet, with memories near, We think of those, always held dear, Our friends and classmates - passed away, To be with God, every school day. They sit at desks, resting on clouds, Surrounded by angelic crowds, where they shall be forevermore. The friends and schoolmates we adore, they will be with us in every prayer. Until the day, we join them there, within the walls of Heavens class, Where friendships formed shall always last. Until that hour, we join again. An empty chair, we will maintain, In honor of the life-long bond we forged with those now passed beyond. The friends with whom we learned lifes truth, Whose bonds lasted far from our youth, And shall remain forever near, When we gather - year after year. Class of 1928 Ruth Naomi Royse - cancer - 8/'80 Olevia Schiesler George - blood disorder - 12/'96 '28 - Obituaries Class of 1929 Maurine Geisendorff Menear - comp./alzheimer's - '97 '29 - Obituaries Class of 1930 '30 - Obituaries Class of 1931 John Alexander Rennick - unknown - '99 '31 - Obituaries Class of 1932 '32 - Obituaries p Class of 1933 Dr. Jackson Clay Kelley - unknown - 6/2008 '33 - Obituaries Class of 1934 '34 - Obituaries Class of 1935 Grace Ballard DeMary - unknown - 11/2014 John Joseph Frank, Jr. - unknown - 10/2012 Dorothy Mae Johnstone - unknown - 4/2011 Pauline Adeline Thompson Conway - unknown - 7/2011 '35 - Obituaries Class of 1936 George Napoleon Rice Jr. - cancer - 1975 '36 - Obituaries Class of 1937 Dr. Jack Dark - unknown - 11/2011 Oliver Earl Spell - unknown - 4/2013 '37 - Obituaries Class of 1938 Louis Beard - unknown - 2/2018 Edwin C. Berry - unknown - 6/2008 Lenora Caffey - unknown - 1/2019 Melba Keen Horn Lamb - unknown - 3/2008 Jack M. Rice - myasthenia gravis - 5/1980 '38 - Obituaries Class of 1939 David Thomas Pate Jr. - unknown - 6/1999 Christine A Stephens - unknown - 2009 '39 - Obituaries Class of 1940 Martha Jane Long Babin - unknown - 10/2006 '40 - Obituaries Class of 1941 Ethel Anderson - unknown Ernest Anderson - unknown Charles Barrett - heatstroke Minnie Rachael Beal - unknown - 8/2004 James Carpenter - unknown Jessie Cobb - unknown Kenneth Cobb - unknown Eugene Coco - unknown Laddie May Taylor Cook - unknown - 11/2008 Glennora Delaney - unknown Henry Delaney - unknown Dan Dennis - unknown - 9/2012 Howard Warren Gale - massive heart attack - 2/1990 Kathleen Galiano - unknown Aline G. Craig Gillett - unknown - 7/2007 Frank Johnstone - unknown Imogene King - unknown Ras Landry - unknown Charles Lewis - unknown Bobbie Mott - unknown Ruth Oliver - unknown Angelina Perello - unknown Oail Bum Phillips Jr. - unknown - 2013 Paul Sims - unknown Elder Spell - unknown Charles Thrash - unknown Dennis Toups - unknown Glenn Ward - unknown Johhny Wells - unknown '41 - Obituaries Class of 1942 Donna Ashworth - unknown Mary Anges Ballard - unknown Burwel Boykin - unknown Annie Marie Bruegger - unknown Feriece E. Benlula - unknown - 5/1999 Norman L. Chase, Jr - heart attack Don O. Covington - unknown - 4/20/20 Merti Dancer Furry - cancer Doris Yvonne Davis - unknown - 6/2009 Juna Belle Doors Chase - stroke Jack Gray - unknown Theodore Jett - unknown George Donald Kelley - unknown - 11/2009 Inez Landrumn - unknown Enola Rose Landry Warner Parrish - unknown - 6/2012 M.L. Love - unknown Truth Martin - unknown Bettie Jo McKinley Rayburn - cancer Bitsy Van Meter - unknown Melba Powell Toups -unknown - 1/2016 Nancy Rebecca Rogers LaRive - cancer Walter C. Shell - perferated ulcer Susie Small - unknown Louise Stapleton Barrett - cancer Flora Jane Thompson - unknown Ernest Tiller - unknown Frank Tiller - unknown Howard Allen Turner - unknown John Tuner - unknown Ruth Ward Watts - complications from heart surgery Russell Warner - unknown '42 - Obituaries Class of 1943 Eloise Brown - unknown Mary Ellen Brown - unknown Wilma Burnett - unknown W.A. Cain - unknown Clara Carr - unknown Armand Chargois - cancer - 11/2002 Dorothy Elizabeth Compton - cancer Peggy Cook - unknown William Davidson - unknown Jesse Rae Hamilton - unknown - 4/2009 Lillie Ruth Jenkins Bilson - heart disease - 12/2002 Mary Katherine Lotz - unknown Bobby Roy Meynig - unknown - 11/2014 Allie Fay Mika - unknown - 5/2013 Carolyn Parrish - unknown Violet Pate - unknown Ollie Preshaw - unknown Bettijo Price - alzheimer's complications - 7/2011 Jessie Rae Reed Hamilton - unknown Edwin Silverberg - unknown Harry Jerome Stapleton - unknown Kathryn Smith - unknown Mary Louis Taylor - unknown Lois Weller - unknown '43 - Obituaries Class of 1944 Hebert Beal - unknown Bonnie Buck - unknown Joyce Lou Fairchild - unknown -2/2018 Carlos S. Fasulo Jr. - unknown Harry Fredrick - unknown Oliver Harvey - unknown Curtis Lee Buck Jessen - unknown - 9/2008 Bill Lemke - unknown Laura Doors Long - unknown Wayne McCollum - unknown Bobby Roy Meynig - unknown - 11/2014 Cotton Morgan - unknown Georgie Ogden - complications from surgery - 5/2009 Matt D. Pate - unknown - 4/2015 J.G. Perry - unknown R.T. Peters - unknown Billy Richards - unknown Lewis Rigsby - unknown Betty Lea Self - unknown Walter Shell - perferated pancreas Aronald Shelton - unknown Edward Smallwood - unknown Laura Springfield - unknown David Thebold - unknown Mark Calvin Turner unknown - 7/19/24 Jerry Wall - unknown Charles Weaver - unknown Hallie Weir - unknown Joyce Lou Wilson Fairchild - 2/2018 '44 - Obituaries Class of 1945 Jack Ballinger - unknown Alton Bayless - unknown Bobby Best - unknown Zachary Brown - unknown - 9/2008 Eugene Cale - unknown H.E. Chauncey - unknown Leroy Darby - unknown Jack Donley - unknown Felix Duhon - unknown Mary Jane Eisman - unknown Don Ethridge - unknown Wilma Gaston Calvin - unknown - 5/2010 Barbara Gaskin - unknown Billy Hartman - unknown Sue Haas - unknown Gene Honsberger - unknown Pasty Honsberger - unknown Hellen Johnson - unknown Margaret Jones - unknown Ruth Lampman Dubuisson .... unknown - 12/2016 O.R. Medlin - unknown Betty Doris Morrison - unknown Rachel Nash - unknown Jackie Neff - unknown - 12/2009 Charlene Nerren - unknown Ann Perello Davis - unknown - 12/2013 Jimmy Pryne - unknown Pasty Rodriguez - unknown Norman Sanders - unknown Billy Sears - unknown Grace Simmons - unknown Louis Snoddy - unknown Harry Stapleton - unknown Bille Joe Taylor - unknown Opal Lou Thrash - unknown - 10/2018 Peter Van Dyke - unknown '45 - Obituaries Class of 1946 Jimmy Anders - unknown Mary Lee Atkins - unknown Donald Broussard - killed in plane crash - 1971 Virgil Bryan - unknown Margaret Crabtree Hobbs - lung cancer Mary Ann Gentry - unknown Lois Grovender - unknown Grace Harris - unknown Marjorie Harvey - unknown Alice Joyce Heiselbtz - cancer Hebert Henderson - unknown Perry Holland - unknown Linoel Klock - unknown Buddy Knupple - unknown Johny Legnon - unknown Don Lemke - unknown Tommy Lucas - unknown Leavon Lyons - unknown Margie McCauley - unknown Trentice McDaniel - unknown - 10/2001 Beverly Jean Miller - unknown Lawrence Montague - unknown Erwin Morgan - unknown Geraald Morgan - unknown Elwood Ozio - unknown Clifton Parker - unknown Carl Pedigo - unknown Emil Roapke - unknown Lineol Strickland - unknown Mary Alice Taylor - unknown - 1/2009 Frank Traver - unknown James Tyre - unknown Dolores Warner - unknown '46 - Obituaries Class of 1947 Emmalee Arledge - unknown Jimmy Beal - unknown Jean Bess - unknown Jack Burns - unknown Ralph Carr - unknown Robert Alton Cherry - cancer Betty Chute - unknown Doris Davidson - unknown Jimmy Dennis - unknown Earl Douglas - unknown Mary Jane Eisman - unknown Larue Fitzgerald - unknown James Harrison - unknown Louis Hartman - unknown John Jacks Jr. - unknown William Orby "Ted" Jones, Jr. - unknown - 5/2014 Earline Johnny - unknown Bobby Keenan - unknown Sophia Kuhl - unknown Timothy Laird - unknown Emalee Lancaster Arleddge - unknown Maxie Leblanc - unknown Johnny Legnon - unknown Lawrence Montague - unknown Clifton Parker - unknown Betty Pate - unknown Lora Mae Pedigo Canter - unknown - 11/2018 Bill Rigsby - unknown - 6/2005 Lucy Dee Ritter - unknown - 2/2010 Mary Ann Segura - unknown William Seklay - unknown Van Self - unknown Buren Charles Smith - stroke - 1/2010 Monroe Stapleton - unknown Charles Stephens - unknown Jo Ann Taite - unknown - 7/2012 Paul Tiller - unknown Van L. Wallace - unknown Mickey Wier - unknown John Wilson - unknown '47 - Obituaries Class of 1948 Virgie Mae Austin - unknown Wilford Bell - unknown Betty Joe Bernard Luis - unknown Harry Boyett - unknown Bobby Bruce - unknown - 1/1990 Bobby Joe Caldwell - unknown Melba Cart - unknown Virgie Mae Austin - unknown Wilford Bell - unknown Eva Joyce Bennight - unknown Martha Grace Downs - unknown Carl Lee George - cancer Don Hollman - unknown Harry Jepson - unknown Bettye Joyce Jones - unknown Maxon Jones - unknown William Cary "Bill" Kelley - unknown - 3/2010 Grace Leach - unknown Betty Joe Luis - unknown - 7/2005 Oliver B. Netterville Jr. - cancer - 5/2011 Betty Plaia - unknown Ralph Pryne - unknown - 12/2005 Donald Smith - unknown Leon Tevis - unknown - 10/1999 Delbert Tiner - unknown '48 - Obituaries Class of 1949 Deloris Atkins - unknown Hampton Blake - unknown Guy Broussard - unknown Jo Ann Darden - unknown - 4/2011 LaRoy M. Mann Cox - unknown - 11/2010 Vernalee Eisman - unknown David Fisher - unknown Betty Frazier - unknown Carl Lee George - unknown - 2/1994 George Graves - unknown H.L. Hamilton - unknown - 4/2015 Corrie Van Hancock - unknown - 3/2014 Donald R. Harris - unknown - 2/2012 Doris Harris - unknown Betty Holder - unknown Roy Holland - unknown Richard Howell - unknown Gene Jackson - unknown - 10/25/25 Ida Jessen LaFosse - unknown - 3/2009 Bobby Jones - unknown Robert Kelly - unknown Ed Kilpatick - unknown Jeanette Landrum - unknown Joan Langford - cancer Maurice "Peck" McDaniel - unknown - 4/1991 Martha Morgan .... unknown Dorcas Powell - unknown Louis Rainey - unknown - 2004 Allen Sanders - unknown Raymond Turner - unknown Rose Mary Van Dyke - unknown Nancey Wallace - unknown '49 - Obituaries **** James Ellis '60 has a wonderful FHS list of alumni on Find a grave.. We both use each others help, working to update all Alumni deaths. Please check out his additions, and help both of us keep the Memorial pages and notices updated... FHS FIND A GRAVE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Back To Memorial & Obits Page NOTE: All the names listed are from other alumni, family and friends. Most names were taken from reunion hand books. Cause of death is not listed on some of them, because it was not given to me. Last week some one e-mailed me that I had someone listed that was alive and well. I am SO SORRY for any pain or suffering this may have caused. I have no true way of varifying this information. If you see or know any information on this page to be false. PLEASE let me know or if you know cause of death I will add that too. I did the Memorial page as a way to remember our lost alumni. Not to cause hurt or cause pain to any one. My deepest sympathy to all the families of our deceased alumni. Thank you, Beth