Obituary Record

Edith Evelyn (French) Johnson
Died on 7/17/1944

20 July, 1944 - The Enterprise

MRS. DONALD JOHNSON RITES IN DENVER

ARLINGTON - Word of the death of Mrs. Donald Johnson of Denver, Colorado, who had been in failing health for some time, reached relatives here on Monday when she passed away.

As Edith Evelyn French, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. M. French of this place and one of a family of 11 children, she was born here in 1900; she attended the Arlington Schools, and in 1920 moved to Otis, Colorado. She attended Greeley College and later taught school at Greeley.

On May 12, 1923 she was married to Donald Johnson of Denver where they resided until five years ago when they moved to Hutsonville, Illinois to prove up on a farm, and then returned to their home in Denver two years ago.

Mrs. Johnson became seriously ill in January, and had been bedfast for the past four weeks.

Besides her husband, Mrs. Johnson is survived by two children, Jerry and June, two others, Dorothy and Donald Newton having preceded their mother in death. Also surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Fred Plugge, Mrs. R. C. Ludwig, both of this place and Mrs. Clarence Norskov of Wahoo; and three brothers, Leslie and Clarence French, both of Arlington and S/Sgt. Harley French, now stationed in New Guinea.

Funeral services were held in Denver yesterday, Wednesday.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

Find a Grave Memorial #122139139

Printed in the Washington County Enterprise on 7/20/1944


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