FROESE, Wilma L. - b. September 2, 1926 - d. January 8, 2008

[LisaT]

Wilma passed today and there will be graveside services today at 4pm @ the Moline Cemetery. I don't understand the big rush to bury her but that is what I have.

(Taken from the Independence Daily Reporter, January 8, 2008, page 3)

Wilma Louise Froese, 81, of Moline, died early today at Pleasant Valley Manor Nursing Home in Sedan.

Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Moline Cemetery with Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Chaplain Mike Graham officiating.

Memorials are suggested to Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice and donations may be left with David W. Barnes Funeral Home, which is handling the arrangements.

Mrs. Forese was born September 2, 1926 in Milan, Tennessee.

She married Johnny J. Froese on April 26, 1948 at Fort Smith, Ark.  The couple moved to Moline in 1952.  Mr. Froese died in 1974.

Mrs. Froese worked as a clerk at a gas station in Moline.  She was a member of First Baptist Church of Moline.

She is survived by a son, Johnny Joe Froese, Arlington, Texas; a daughter, Betty Jo Martin, lawrence; a brother, kenneth Price, Oklahoma; a sister, Marie Fagan, Guthrie, Okla.; a half-sister, Charlotte Easton; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

[Ole Granny]

Many fond memories of Wilma!  That was quick.  Blessing for her.