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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., January 25, 1962, page 1

SERVICE HELD LAST WEEK FOR MRS. JOHNSON

Pearl Alice Johnson was born the 12th day of June, 1878 to the union of Addison Sprague Jones and Alice Nancy Hilton in Illinois.
Her early life was spent in Iowa and Minnesota, where she was engaged in the teaching and nursing professions.
She married Edward B. Johnson in Evanston, Wyoming in 1917. At the time there were seven children in the Johnson home. She not only became a loving mother to these children but bore two children of her own to her husband.
Her care of others, she felt, was her constant mission in life. This was evidenced by the loving manner in which she cared for her aged parents for years, and later she nursed her sister Mary for several years.
She ably assisted her husband in his pastoral work in Bend and Athena, Oregon. After retiring from the ministry the family moved to Lyle, Washington where they engaged in farming.
Her husband preceded her in death, going to his reward in 1936. In 1941 Mrs. Johnson moved to Seattle and lived with her daughter Myrtle for eight years. In 1949 she went to live with her niece Eleanor Rasp in Seattle.
Mrs. Johnson was an active member of the University Presbyterian Church of Seattle. On her eightieth birthday forty- two members of the family attended Church with her. This event was recognized by the Pastor Dr. Cowie.
Pearl Alice Johnson went to be with the Lord she loved and served so long on the 18th day of January, 1962 at the age of Eighty-three years. "Well done good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord".
She leaves to mourn her loss: Four sons, Dean Johnson of Sheridan, Wyoming; Everett Johnson of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Kenneth Johnson of Tucson, Arizona and Gordon Bock of Seattle, Wash. Also Seven daughters -- Hazel Wilsey of Pendleton, Ore.; Leota Kinsey of Palo Alto, California; Myrtle Johnson of Hood River, Ore.; Jessamine Powell of Newport, Ore.; Iris Gardner of Seattle, Wash.; Florence Sampson of Los Altos, Calif. and Lois Burns of Yakima, Wash. Also many grandchildren and great grandchildren.