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Show Johnson Birthday Was Wednesday Mrs. Josephine N. Johnson, a life-long resident of this city, was honored at a family gather -ling on a recent afternoon at the .iome of a granddaughter, Mrs. oEll N. Fowles in Fairview in honor of her eighty-eighth birthday anniversary. Mrs. Johnson, still "hale and hearty", performs her household duties and keeps house for a son still living at home. She was born in Mt. Pleasant, February 14, 1862, a daughter ol Fredrick P. and Christine Nielsen. Niel-sen. She was married to Edmund Ed-mund C. Johnson, prominent woolgrower and civic leader of this city, January 20, 1882. They were the parents of eight children, four of them living. Edmund A. Johnson of Tacoma, Wash. Mrs. Lewis S. Woodring of Sterling, Colo.; Mrs. James W. Cook of Denver, Colo., and Pearly Johnson of Mt. Pleasant; she has seventeen grand-children. Mr. Johnson died June 10, 1940. ahermea" arpyny luncheon ThMrrSsdajyohansoennra. member of the Mt. Pleasant Pioneer His- -rmeor-heme ffi tufe and O. S. A. Clubs |