SISTER LOUISE FRENCH

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I just returned from Kenai, Alaska, where funeral services for Louise French
were conducted in North Kenai UPC Church.

Sister French was my sister for all of my 79 years.  She was approaching her
93rd birthday-- Feb 18,1998

Many of the Ministers spoke of her untiring life of prayer and intercession
for the Alaskan people.  They also spoke very highly of her efforts for the
strength of the United Pentecostal Church in Alaska.

Louise and her late husband, Kenneth French, received a definite Missionary
call to Alaska in December of 1938.  They arrived in Sitka in April of 1940,
and established the first Jesus Name Church in the Territory.  It was the
first of what was to be many more established by their efforts.

She was "Grandma" to almost everybody in all of the Alaskan churches.  She
was known from Barrow to Ketchikan, and also from the East to the West.  She
was the Matriarch of the UPC in Alaska, and a true Mother in Israel.

Her name could have been "Deborah", for she was certainly a Crusader for the
God of Israel.

She is buried beside her late husband, in the cemetery at Soldotna.  It is a
unique cemetery.  The graves are placed between and around old-growth
evergreen trees, with natural Alaskan ground cover.  God is the caretaker.

Bro. Marion Fretwell