With apologies to current Forest Park Mayor Corine Deyton, I will forever think of our dear family friend, Montine Tomasello, as the First Lady of Forest Park.
This sweet angel on earth was called home to our Heavenly Creator on Sunday, Jan. 20, and she will be sorely missed around these parts, beginning with her former neighbors on and around Sequoia Drive in Forest Park, extending to Jones Memorial First United Methodist Church in Lake City, and throughout Clayton, Henry, and beyond.
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