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Obituary for TOLLESON


Published in the Albuquerque Journal on Saturday August 08, 2009

Claire Jo Johnson Tolleson of Atlanta died August 6, 2009. She was born in Faunsdale, Alabama on May 30, 1927 to Pauline Barclay Johnson and Iris S. Johnson. She was in every aspect a wife and mother of noble character, a life lived in beautiful personification of Proverbs 31. Claire Jo was preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Guss Tolleson, Jr. She is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Anne Couch and Cindy and Dave Jollay; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild, Mayer Jollay Buisson and her husband Beau, Matt Jollay, Jesse Couch, his wife Amber and their daughter Adria; and one sister and brother-in-law, Eugenia and Glyn Giles, of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Funeral Service will be Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 11:00 a.m., at HM Patterson Funeral Home Oglethorpe Hill with Deanne Lynch officiating. In lieu of flowers in memory of Mrs. Tolleson, contributions may be made to Mountain Park United Methodist Church, 1405 Rockbridge Road, Stone Mountain, Georgia 30087. Interment will follow at Arlington Memorial. Friends are invited to the Jollay home for a celebration of Claire Jo's life after the service.


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