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Marjorie
H. Follett
Obituary
from The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois
PONTIAC
-- Marjorie H. Follett, 89, of Pontiac died at 1:25 a.m. Thursday
(Oct. 2, 2003) at OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical
Center, Pontiac.
A
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 1 p.m. Saturday
in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Pontiac, with Msgr. Thomas
Mack officiating. Burial will follow in St. Mary's Cemetery,
Pontiac.
Visitation
will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Harris-Martin-Burke
Funeral Home, 413 N. Main St., Pontiac. The family suggests
that memorials be made to OSF Saint James' Auxiliary Scholarship
Fund, the St. Vincent DePaul Food Pantry or St. Mary's School
Endowment Fund.
Marge
was born March 2, 1914, in Pontiac, the daughter of James
H. and Anne S. (Quinn) Cook. She graduated from St. Mary's
Grade School in 1929 and was a 1933 graduate of Pontiac Township
High School. Later she attended Illinois State Normal University,
where she took courses in interior design.
On
June 15, 1935, she married Marshall G. Follett in St. Mary's
Rectory at Pontiac. He survives.
Also
surviving are a son, Jerry (Lynn) Follett, Yucaipa, Calif.;
two daughters, Marsha (Rick) Pauly, Columbia, Mo.; and Peggy
(Craig) Peterson, Pekin; and Mary Laura Allen (Phil) Warden,
Madison, Wis., who was raised in the Follett home; eight grandchildren,
Craig (Meghan) Pauly, Laura (Zach) Templeton, Joan Pauly,
Scott (Kristen) Peterson, Kirsten Peterson, Todd Peterson,
Kate and Mark Rudman; two great-grandsons, Connor and Mason
Templeton; and her brother, James (Betty) Cook, Pontiac.
She
was preceded in death by her parents.
Mrs.
Follett was self-employed, owning and operating Follett's
Drapery Service in Pontiac for many years.
She
was a lifelong member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Pontiac;
a charter member and the first secretary of St. James Hospital's
Auxiliary where she had been a member of the auxiliary board;
a member and past president of the Pontiac American Legion
Auxiliary; volunteer for many years with the American Red
Cross Blood Bank, where she had been the Quiet Hero coordinator;
had been a member of the Livingston County Historical Society;
and a former member of the Ladies Golf Association of the
Pontiac Elks Lodge.
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