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



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      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

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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