Published in The Enterprise, 11/27/1975

MISS EMMA JOHNSON BURIED AT BLAIR LAST SATURDAY

Funeral services for Miss Emma Caroline Johnson, 87, were held at the Campbell Funeral Home Saturday afternoon with Father Robert Bee officiating. Interment was in the Blair Cemetery. She had been a resident at the Tyndall, South Dakota Good Samaritan Center since last March and died at the St. Michaels Hospital there Tuesday.

Following her retirement as practitioner under the interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C., she lived in New Hampshire, then resided in Tyndall for several years before moving to Omaha and then to Blair. She was a founder of the National Women’s Party in Washington, a member of the National Liberal Club there and of the League of Women Voters in Virginia.

The daughter of well-known Nebraska pioneers, Magness and Anna Johnson, she was born December 27, 1888 in Washington County, Nebraska. She began a career in railroad service in 1906 and in 1918 was assigned to work in the offices of the U.S. Railroad Administration in Washington. Shortly after the railroads returned to private control in 1922, she became associated with her former chief who entered private practice of interstate commerce law.

During most of her life, she lived in the then rapidly growing Arlington County, Virginia. There she was active in local and county civic associations. In 1967, the Arlington Ridge Civic Assoc. honored her with their outstanding citizenship award in appreciation for her many years of dedicated service & leadership.

She is survived by several nieces and nephews.