April 2015

Millie M Freemon

Millie M. Freemon passed away on April 24, 2015 in Olney, Illinois. Millie was a life-long resident of Shelbyville until she moved to assisted living in Olney in 2004. She was born on September 15, 1917 in Shelby County, Illinois, the daughter of Orval Ned Leach and Goldie May Duckett Leach. She graduated from Shelbyville High School in 1935 and married Russel G. Freemon on June 14, 1936. Russel died in 1992. She is survived by two sons, Rodney (Alberta) Freemon of Olney, IL and Robert (Mary Jo) Freemon of Garden City, SC. She has three grandchildren, Roberta (Robbie) Blythe, Ronald (Karen) Freemon, and Renee (Robert) Mulvihill. She is great grandmother to three great grandchildren and five step-great grandchildren. Millie is the last survivor of her family having been predeceased by sisters, Lorene Corley and Mary Lou Leach, and by brothers, Loren “Bud” Leach and Medford Leach as well as by her parents.

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