Frances Lawson Thurston Clonts March 25 1913 - December 24 2000 Last photo of my mom taken on Oct. 28, 2000 Frances Lawson Thurston Clonts was born on March 25, 1913, one of 11 children born to Eugene Armstead and Lena Burnett Thurston of Richmond, Virginia. Frances lived most of her life in the Richmond area despite several moves for short periods of time. She married Alpheus Clonts on April 9, 1955. In 1961 she and her husband, Alpheus Eugene Clonts, adopted a baby girl and named her, Marigrace. I am that baby. Frances was a wonderful mother and I know she is an angel in Heaven as she was already one here on earth. She was diagnosed with alzheimers in April 2000 even though we knew something was not right for some time. She moved in with my husband and I and then broke her hip in October 2000, and got a staph infection and the hip had to be removed and her right leg shortened. She became bed ridded and in following her power of attorney for health care, she was put on comfort measures and entered the Hospice program. She slipped into a coma on Dec. 18, 2000, and never woke up. She passed away Dec. 24, 2000, at 5:43 am. I miss her so much. Her urn will be taken to Richmond National Cemetery in Richmond, Va to be buried next to my dad, Alpheus. My mom in 1950 Comments to Mari Swierzynski (marigynski@yahoo.com) (Frances' daughter).