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Show Midwife To 1,000 Babies Passes Wednesday Mrs. Lillian Elnora Reynolds Johnson, 82, for many years a well-known Mt. Pleasant nurse and midwife, died Wednesday afternoon in the Sanpete LDS Hospital of causes incident to age. Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted at 1 p.m. Monday in the North ward chapel by Bishop Arnold Y. Stevens. Friends may call at the home of Mrs. Johnson's brother, Asa F. Reynolds, 162 East Main Street from 10 a. m. Wednesday till time of services. Burial will-be will-be in the Mt. Pleasant city cemetery cem-etery under direction of Jacobs Mortuary. Mrs. Johnson was born in Mt. Pleasant, a daughter of pioneer parents, William F. and Krestena Laursen Reynolds, on March 13. 1867. She was educated in the Mt. Pleasant schools, and later was one of the" first graduates from the Ellis R. Shipp school of obstetrics in Salt Lake. She passed the state board of exam-ners exam-ners in 1899 and during her long practice as a midwife delivered more than 1000 babies. She moved to Provo in 1920 and on March 13, 1934 she was married in the Salt Lake LDS Temple to David Almon Johnson of Moab. He died Oct. 1, 1940, and in 1946 Mrs. Johnson returned re-turned to Mt. Pleasant to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. Asa F. Reynolds. She had been an active worker work-er in the LDS Church and had served as Relief Society teacher, president and officer of the North ward YWMIA and was a member of the ward choir for many years. Surviving are four brothers and three sisters, Asa F. Reynolds, Rey-nolds, Mt. Pleasant; Levi W. Reynolds of Provo; Bert Reynolds, Reyn-olds, Byron Reynolds, Mrs. Zella Womack and Mrs. Florence Crowther of Sanford, Colo., and Mrs. Annie Womack of Denver. |