<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<item xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" itemId="23365" public="1" featured="0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="https://history.meigslibrary.org/items/show/23365?output=omeka-xml" accessDate="2026-06-22T17:55:56+00:00">
  <collection collectionId="1190">
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="72570">
                <text>Obituaries</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </collection>
  <itemType itemTypeId="1">
    <name>Text</name>
    <description>A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.</description>
    <elementContainer>
      <element elementId="1">
        <name>Text</name>
        <description>Any textual data included in the document</description>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="73145">
            <text>Edna Lenora French, 94, Point Pleasant, W. Va. and formerly of Addison Township of Gallia County, passed away at 4:30 a.m. Monday, November 15, 2021 in the Holzer Senior Care Center. Born September 1, 1927 in Addison Township she was the daughter of the late Raymond C. and Belva Belle Shaver Stewart. She was a homemaker.&#13;
&#13;
She married Robert Eugene French on April 10, 1946 and he preceded her in death on April 1, 1997.&#13;
&#13;
Edna is survived by her two sisters, Sara Lou Plants, of Point Pleasant, W. Va. and Barbara Thomas, of Columbus, Ohio. Several nieces and nephews also survive.&#13;
&#13;
In addition to her parents and husband she was preceded in death by her two daughters, Sherian Kay French, on January 24, 2015 and Charlotte Ann French, on November 13, 2011 and by her brother, Charles Stewart.&#13;
&#13;
In keeping with Edna’s wishes there are no calling hours or a funeral service. Private interment will be in the Gravel Hill Cemetery at Cheshire. Edna’s arrangements are entrusted to the Cremeens-King Funeral Home, Gallipolis.</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
      <element elementId="7">
        <name>Original Format</name>
        <description>The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data</description>
        <elementTextContainer>
          <elementText elementTextId="73146">
            <text>Newspaper</text>
          </elementText>
        </elementTextContainer>
      </element>
    </elementContainer>
  </itemType>
  <elementSetContainer>
    <elementSet elementSetId="1">
      <name>Dublin Core</name>
      <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="50">
          <name>Title</name>
          <description>A name given to the resource</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="73143">
              <text>Edna Lenora (Stewart) French</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="48">
          <name>Source</name>
          <description>A related resource from which the described resource is derived</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="73144">
              <text>Cremeens Funeral Homes, Inc.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </elementSet>
  </elementSetContainer>
  <tagContainer>
    <tag tagId="1437">
      <name>french</name>
    </tag>
    <tag tagId="103">
      <name>stewart</name>
    </tag>
  </tagContainer>
</item>
