Mrs. Ethel Quarles French, 89, the great-granddaughter of an aide to Gen. George Washington, died at St. Michael Hospital Monday. She was the widow of patent attorney Louis O. French who died in 1958.
Mrs. French, 2431 N. Farwell Ave., was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution. At the Milwaukee chapter's 50th anniversary in 1943, she appeared in a pageant wearing a gown once worn by her grandmother, Mrs. David Thiers, who came to Wisconsin in 1847.
Mrs. Thiers was a national figure. During World War I, she was honored as the oldest subscriber to Liberty Loans and in 1922, when she was 106 and the only living daughter of a Revolutionary Soldier, she was known as the nation's oldest suffragette.
Mrs. French's father was Charles Quarles, a prominent Milwaukee attorney.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Barbara F. Chase of Milwaukee, Mrs. Jean F. Price of Garden Grove, Calif., and Mrs. Ruth Crispell of St. Petersburg, Fla. [She was predeceased by another daughter, Eunice French Owen.]
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the chapel at Forest Home Cemetery.
Mrs. French, 2431 N. Farwell Ave., was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution. At the Milwaukee chapter's 50th anniversary in 1943, she appeared in a pageant wearing a gown once worn by her grandmother, Mrs. David Thiers, who came to Wisconsin in 1847.
Mrs. Thiers was a national figure. During World War I, she was honored as the oldest subscriber to Liberty Loans and in 1922, when she was 106 and the only living daughter of a Revolutionary Soldier, she was known as the nation's oldest suffragette.
Mrs. French's father was Charles Quarles, a prominent Milwaukee attorney.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Barbara F. Chase of Milwaukee, Mrs. Jean F. Price of Garden Grove, Calif., and Mrs. Ruth Crispell of St. Petersburg, Fla. [She was predeceased by another daughter, Eunice French Owen.]
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the chapel at Forest Home Cemetery.
Mrs. Ethel Quarles French, 89, the great-granddaughter of an aide to Gen. George Washington, died at St. Michael Hospital Monday. She was the widow of patent attorney Louis O. French who died in 1958.
Mrs. French, 2431 N. Farwell Ave., was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution. At the Milwaukee chapter's 50th anniversary in 1943, she appeared in a pageant wearing a gown once worn by her grandmother, Mrs. David Thiers, who came to Wisconsin in 1847.
Mrs. Thiers was a national figure. During World War I, she was honored as the oldest subscriber to Liberty Loans and in 1922, when she was 106 and the only living daughter of a Revolutionary Soldier, she was known as the nation's oldest suffragette.
Mrs. French's father was Charles Quarles, a prominent Milwaukee attorney.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Barbara F. Chase of Milwaukee, Mrs. Jean F. Price of Garden Grove, Calif., and Mrs. Ruth Crispell of St. Petersburg, Fla. [She was predeceased by another daughter, Eunice French Owen.]
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the chapel at Forest Home Cemetery.
Mrs. French, 2431 N. Farwell Ave., was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution. At the Milwaukee chapter's 50th anniversary in 1943, she appeared in a pageant wearing a gown once worn by her grandmother, Mrs. David Thiers, who came to Wisconsin in 1847.
Mrs. Thiers was a national figure. During World War I, she was honored as the oldest subscriber to Liberty Loans and in 1922, when she was 106 and the only living daughter of a Revolutionary Soldier, she was known as the nation's oldest suffragette.
Mrs. French's father was Charles Quarles, a prominent Milwaukee attorney.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Barbara F. Chase of Milwaukee, Mrs. Jean F. Price of Garden Grove, Calif., and Mrs. Ruth Crispell of St. Petersburg, Fla. [She was predeceased by another daughter, Eunice French Owen.]
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the chapel at Forest Home Cemetery.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
