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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Johnston
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 16:59:42 -0400


Undated article from unknown source. Extracted from the newspaper
article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison,
Missouri.



Mrs. R. Johnston, Near Holliday, Dies of Heart Attack



"Madison - Mrs. Rolla Johnston, 56, died at 3 o'clock this morning
following a heart attack at her home near Holliday. Born July 23, 1898,
Mrs. Johnston was the daughter of Perry and Eva King Hartman. Her
mother died when she was an infant and she was reared by her maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Nathan King. She and Mr. Johnston were married in
1918. She lived in or near Madison and Holliday her entire life, moving
to a newly built home on Highway 24 near Holliday in 1949. She was a
member of the Holliday Christian Church and had recently been made a
deaconess. She was vice-president of the Holliday CWF and treasurer of
her group.

Mrs. Johnston became ill April 9 while staying with her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Lylburn Jonston, Madison, who was a patient in Woodland Hospital,
Moberly, expecting a baby. Mrs. Rolla Johnston suffered a heart attack
at the hospital and became a patient. She was taken home Wednesday by
ambulance and was thought to be in a good condition.

Surviving are her husband; a son, Lylburn Johnston and a granddaughter,
Mary Beth Johnston, born Easter Sunday; two half-sisters, Mrs. Gladys
Carson of Brunswick and Mrs. Martha Hanna of Keytesville; her
stepmother, Mrs. Terry Hartman of Brunswick; and an aunt, Mrs. Emma
Howell of Meridian, Idaho. The body is at the home. Funeral services
will be conducted at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the Holliday
Christian church by the pastor, the Rev. Dean Hoover. Burial
arrangements have not yet been made."





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