Obit: Bertha Seaward Johnson, 1999, Lincoln Parish, LA 
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291 


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                The Ruston Daily Leader, October, 1999

                     Bertha Seaward Johnson

Services for Bertha Seaward Johnson, 92, of Ruston will be held
at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 12,1999, in the Kilpatrick Funeral
Home Chapel.  Officiating will be Rev.  Steve Howery.  Interment
will be in Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kilpatrick
Funeral Home of Ruston.

Mrs. Johnson died Thursday, October 7, 1999, at her residence
after a sudden illness.

Mrs. Johnson was a longtime member of the Presbyterian Church of
Ruston.  She was born and raised in New Orleans.  She was a
graduate of Newcomb College of Tulane University.  She taught
school in Morgan City, where she met her husband.  They moved to
Ruston in the early 1940s.  She was very active as a wife of a
Professor and supported activities of La.  Tech University.  She
established a scholarship fund in her husband's name after his
death in 1990.

She was preceded in death by her husband,T.W."Ray" Johnson.

Survivors include two nephews, Gordon W. Seaward, Jr. of Solana
Beach, Calif., and Richard S. Seaward of Springfield, Va.; two
grand nieces and two grand nephews; and three great grand nephews
and nieces.

Pallbearers will be Robert E. Holladay, John Emory, Sr., Rodney
Johnson, Benjamin Denny, Eric Reed, and Judge Wayne Smith.

Family will receive friends at the funeral home on Tuesday be-

ginning at 1:00 p.m. until service time.