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Show ALICE JOHNSON SERVICES HELD IN FOURTH WARD Many sorrowing relatives and friends attended services Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon in the Fourth ward chapel, for Mrs. Alice Packard Johnson, 35, wife of Clair Johnson, John-son, who died Sunday, at a Provo hospital of complications following follow-ing childbirth. An infant son also died at birth at 10 a. m., Sunday. The services were under the direction di-rection of the Third ward bishopric with Bishop William Witney in charge. The speakers, each of whom spoke in glowing terms of Mrs. Johnson as a mother and an outstanding out-standing character, were A. W. Cherrington, former ibishop of the First ward and W. W. Brockbank, principal of the high school. Music was given by W. Elmo Coffman who rendered a vocal solo; by Elvis Parry who gave a vocal solo and the Robertson string quartet of Provo. Peter Nielson, former Dishop of the Third ward, gave the benediction. benedic-tion. The invocation was given by David Robertson and W. K. Johnson John-son Jr., dedicated the grave at the City cemetery. Born in Springville August 22, 1902, a daughter of J. A. and Eliza Robertson Packard, Mrs. Johnson spent most of her life in this city. She graduated from the local high school in 1922. After her marriage to Mr. Johnson in the Salt Lake temple, June 25, 1925, the couple lived at various towns where Mr. Johnson was engaged as music instructor. in-structor. He had charge of the music at the local high school before be-fore going to Provo two years ago, and at the time of Mrs. Johnson's death, they were preparing to move to Ogden where Mr. Johnson is to supervise music at Weber college. Mrs. Johnson had taken an active part in the church and civic affairs af-fairs in the wards in which she had lived. She was a member of the Springville Alpha Beta club. Surviving, besides her husband, are two sons and a daughter, Russell, Rus-sell, Allen and Aileen Johnson; her father and three brothers and a sister, J. Owen Packard, Salt Lake City; Grant H., Bliss R. and Ida Packard, Springville. |
