4/25/1933 - 5/15/2018
Ralph E. French age 85,
longtime Jay County resident passed away Tuesday in IU Ball Memorial
Hospital surrrounded by his family. He was born in Richmond April 25, 1933
the son of Bert and Bertha (Adams) French. He was married August 18, 1956 to
Nancy Greene who survives. He retired in 1988 from Peoples Bank in Portland.
He was a US Army veteran and member of Dunkirk American Legion and attended
Gethsemane at the Gardens Methodist Church in Muncie.
Surviving are two sons
Gary French of Tainan, Taiwan and Steve French (wife Angie) of Dunkirk, one
daughter Julie Gilliland (husband Marvin) of Yorktown, six grandchildren and
six great grandchildren
Private family services
will be held. Burial will be in the Center Cemetery with military honors by
American Legion Post #211. Memorials can be made to ARF in Muncie.
Baird-Freeman Funeral Home are in charge of arrangements.
Baird-Freeman
Funeral Home; 5/16/2018
Contributed by Jim Cox
Buried in Center Cemetery