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Show Funeral rites held for Anna Johnson Services were conducted Monday in the Second-Eighth Ward Chapel, for Mrs. Anna Whitney Johnson, 87, well-known well-known LDS Church and club worker, who died Thursday, August 25, 1966, in a Provo Hospital following a stroke. Burial was in the City Cemetery, Cem-etery, directed by Wheeler Mortuary. Mrs. Johnson was born at Mapleton, January 5, 1878, a daughter of Leonard J. and Tryphena Perry Whitney. She attended grade school in Mapleton and graduated from the Hungerford Academy in Springville. She acted as postmistress post-mistress for a time and also taught school. She was married to Wayne Johnson June 20, 1901 in Mapleton. Ma-pleton. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They lived for a while in Scofield and Price and came to Springville in 1912. Mr. Johnson died in 1950. A member of the LDS Church she has been active in YWMIA serving as president, also 36 years as ward and stake Relief Society president and as class leader and teacher. teach-er. She has been a diligent genealogical worker until the time of her illness. A gifted artist, Mrs. Johnson John-son was known as Springville's "Grandma Moses". Her hobbies hob-bies included handicrafts of all (cont. on back page, col. 3) Funeral rites held for Anna Johnson (continued from page one) kinds, raising flowers and canary birds. A charter mmber of the Ha-fen-Dallin Art Club, she served as its fir,st president. She was also a member of the Mother's Study Federated Women's Club and of the DUP. She served as attendant to the queen of the Black Hawk Encampment in 1954 and was Springville's Mother of the Year in the same year. Survivors include six sons and daughters: Dr. Clar W. Johnson, Ogden; Eugene, San Diego, Calif; C. Burton, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Carl (Nel-da) (Nel-da) Franson, Billings, Mont.; Mrs. Oliver (Jessie) Dalton and D. LaRell Johnson, both of Springville; 24 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren. |