Obitutary: Louise Moore Johnson
Submitter: Hank Johns  May 2001
Source:From a newspaper "? Dispatch" in Roswell, NM. Date of obit article is Sunday, November 22. No year is shown. 



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From a newspaper "? Dispatch" in Roswell, NM. Date of obit article is 
Sunday, November 22. No year is shown.
 

                    JOHNSON Services This Afternoon 

Funeral services will be held this afternoon at two thirty at the 
Ballard Funeral chapel for Mrs. Louise Moore Johnson, former Roswell 
resident who died last Tuesday at Washington D.C. after an illness of
four weeks. 

Rev. P. M. Carraway, pastor of the First M. E. church, South, will be 
in charge of the services. Mrs. H. P. Saunders and Mrs. Norma Brenneman
will sing. With Mrs. C. W. Grier playing the accompaniment.

The casket-bearers will be J. P. White Jr., Arden Boellner, Byron W. 
Lowrey, E. G. Minton, Sr., Dan H. Wilmont, and Charles Wiseley. Burial 
will be made at South Park.
 
Mrs. Johnson was born Oct 5, 1907 at Oak Grove, La., and moved to 
Carlsbad with her family in 1911, coming to Roswell from there in 1924.
She graduated from Roswell high school in May, 1925. On Jan. 3rd, 1926 
she was married at Roswell to Roderick Johnson and from this union one 
child, Florance Anne Johnson was born.
 
Mrs. Johnson left here in 1928 going to Washington, D.C. where she had 
been employed for the past four years as personnel clerk for the Public
Works administration. 

In addition to her husband and daughter, Mrs. Johnson is survived by 
her mother, Mrs. Anne Moore of Roswell, by one sister, Mrs. Jewell Lowa
of Lubbock, and by one brother, Willis Moore of Washington, D. C.
 
The body arrived here on the train at 7:45 Friday evening accompanied 
by Mrs. Johnson's mother and brother. Other relatives here for the 
funeral are Mrs. Ralph Lowe, (Mrs. Johnson's sister) and husband from 
Lubbock; J. C. Wilson (Mrs. Moore's brother) and wife from Pecos, 
Texas; Mrs. C. W. Herring (Mrs. Moore's sister) and husband and son 
from Carlsbad; Mrs. J. A. Maddux, as sister of Mrs. Moore, from 
Stamford, Texas; Mrs. Glenn Bisch, a niece of Mrs. Moore from Hobbs; 
and two other nieces of Mrs. Moore; Mrs. Harry Cooper of Sante Fe and
Mrs. Archie McIntyre of Clovis, both accompanied by their husbands. 

Ballard Funeral Home directing.