Vona I. DUMAIS

Vona I. Clement, 87, of Kankakee, died Sunday (June 5, 2005) in the emergency room at Riverside Medical Center. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. today at the Clancy-Gernon-Hertz Funeral Home, West Kankakee, where services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Rev. Tom Ballard will officiate. Burial will be in St. Anne Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Riverside Medical Center Foundation or to the Holiday Rambler Scholarship Program. Mrs. Clement retired after 20 years as a cafeteria manager at St. Anne Grade School. She was born April 29, 1918, in St. Anne, the daughter of Ameddie and Pearl St. Pierre Dumais. Her husband, Clinton "Bid" Clement, whom she married June 19, 1937, in Tuscola, died March 18, 1997. She was a graduate of St. Anne High School. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in St. Anne. She was a charter member of the Jolly Sams RV Club and a member of the Jolly Ramblers RV Club. She enjoyed camping and traveling. Surviving are one son, C. Lee Clement of Kankakee; one daughter and son-in-law, Cheryl and Roger Keast of Kankakee; one brother and sister-in-law, Ivel and Irene Dumais of St. Anne; two grandsons, Douglas (Melissa) Keast, Jeffery (Jennifer) Keast, both of Bourbonnais; and four great-grandchildren, Brittney, T.J., Logan and Hailey. Deceased are her parents, one brother, Loren; two sisters-in-law, Velma Clement and Joanne Dumais; and one brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Francis and Marguerite Clodi.