I'm sorry, I gave you wrong information. The obit was for George's wife who died in 2002.

Here is the obituary from The Bemidji Pioneer, November 27, 2002.

PHILOMENE MARKHAM

Philomene Irene Markham, 90, of Walker died Monday Nov. 25, 2002 at the Woodrest Health Care Center in Walker.

The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Red Lake, with the Rev. Pat Sullivan officiating. A wake begins at 4 p.m. Friday in the Little Rock Community Center at Red Lake. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Red Lake, with arrangements by the Olson-Schartz Funeral Home of Bemidji.

She was born July 18, 1912, in White Earth to Joe and Angeline (Redbird) Bellanger. She grew up in Elbow Lake, Minn. And attended school in White Earth.

She married George Markham in 1938 in Red Lake, and they lived in Redby. After the death of her husband, she moved to Bemidji where she lived for several years. In 1984 she moved to Walker and had lived there since.

She enjoyed photograph, pictures, gardening and flowers.

She is survived by nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers and four sisters.