MRS. JOHNSON RITES MONDAY

Mrs. Dora Johnson, a resident of west Lincoln street for many years, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lucille Warrick late Friday evening. She was 85 years old.

Dora Pate Johnson was born September 6, 1867 at Custer, Kentucky where she grew to womanhood and spent the early years of her life. She was married to George Johnson February 9, 1887 and two daughters and a son were born to this union.

In 1908 the family moved to Nebraska. Blair and vicinity have been her home since that time.

On February 9, 1937, the couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, and Mr. Johnson passed away less than a month later, on March 5, 1937. Since that time Mrs. Johnson has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Lucille Warrick.

She was known to her many friends as a great lover of her hoe and her favorite pastime was the piecing together bits of material to make quilts. She did this work beautifully, and had many of them.

Mrs. Johnson is survived by her children: a son, Wallace, of Blair, and her daughters: Mrs. Lucille Warrick, of Blair, and Mrs. Mabel Hall, of Oakland, Nebraska. There are seven grandchildren and twenty great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Monday from the Baptist Church, with the Rev. R.E. Ditlevsen officiating. Burial, under the direction of the Bendorf Funeral Home, was made in the Blair cemetery.

Pallbearers were grandsons and husbands of granddaughters of the deceased. They were Harold Hall, Schuyler; Ralph Hall, Oakland; Clyde Langley, Herman; Ted Therkelsen, Norman Schneekloth and Leslie Johnson, of Blair.

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

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