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Show I SpringviUe lady reaches 98 honey or molasses candy, popcorn pop-corn and apples. She was married at the age of 19 to Stephen D. Johnson, son of Aaron Johnson, first bishop of SpringviUe. Her wedding wed-ding dress of a light wool jac- ; quard pattern, she said at one j time, was the first ready-made j dress she had. Mrs. Johnson often told the i story of taking a start of j yeast with her when she went ! (Continued on Page 11, Col. 4) Mrs. Luella Curtis Johnson, a native of SpringviUe, who spent the greater portion of her life in this city, observed her 98th birthday March 21, at the home of a son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Johnson of Almagor-do, Almagor-do, N. M. with whom she makes her home. The fourth of a family of 14 sons and daughters, her parents were Uriah and Sarah Mendenhall Curtis, early pioneers pio-neers of SpringviUe. Mrs. Johnson, according to recent word from her son, dresses daily (and has dinner at the table. She has a good appetite and her health is comparably good. She experienced the early settlement years when housewives house-wives spun wool and cotton, dyed the yarns with indigo and wove them into clothing for the family. As a girl she gathered straw from the wheat field then soaked and otherwise other-wise treated it for braiding into straw hats. Kerosene lamps came into use during her girlhood as did the use of glass jars for preserving pre-serving fruit. Before that time, fruit was dried for winter use. Entertainment during her girlhood days consisted of dances, spelling bees and singing sing-ing class parties and the refreshments re-freshments was quite often Springville lady reaches 98 (Continued from page one) to cook in the- tie and timber camps, making the trip as a passenger in the caboose of a freight train. Her interests during her later la-ter married life, were centered around her husband and children. chil-dren. For a number of . years her husband farmed and she also assisted him in the management man-agement of a hotel in Provo for several years. After their children were reared, they did some traveling. travel-ing. At the age of 90, Mrs. Johnson John-son reading of a lady who was voting at 103, decided she was not to be outdone and went to the polls to cast her vote. Mr. Johnson died in 1949 at the age of 93, and their only daughter Euphemia, with whom the Johnsons lived for quite a number of years, died the past year. There are two sons, Howard of Almogordo, N. M. and He-ber He-ber of Seattle, Wash.; four grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Mrs. i Johnson also has three sisters, Mrs. Orissa Celventra, 78 of Springville; Mrs. Siotha Crezee, 84, of Santa Monica, Calif.; Mrs. Zina Erlandson, 82 of Payson and a brother, Hollis Curtis of Salt Lake City, who is celebrating his 94th birthday today, April1 7. |