Dawson-Buffalo County NeArchives Obituaries.....Johnson, Mary J. Ourada June 22, 2010 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ne/nefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Danny Gruber danny.gruber@gmail.com June 22, 2010, 12:32 pm Lexington Clipper-Herald June 23, 2010 Mary J. Johnson, 94, of Kearney, died Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at St. Luke's Good Samaritan Village. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Friday, June 25 at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Overton with Rev. Mike McDonald officiating. Interment will be in St. Ann's Cemetery in Lexington. Visitation will be from 6-7 PM Thursday at the O'Brien - Straatmann Funeral Chapel in Elm Creek with a Rosary Service at 7:00 p.m. She was born July 3, 1915 in Overton to Frank and Frances (Pavelka) Ourada. She grew up in Overton. She attended District 77 country school and graduated from Overton High School in 1934. On Feb.10, 1936, she married Johnnie A. Johnson in Elm Creek. The couple farmed south of Sumner until 1961, when they moved to Overton. Mary moved to Kearney in 1988. She was a member of Holy Rosary Catholic Church and Prince of Peace Catholic Church. She was an excellent seamstress and quilter and enjoyed flower and vegetable gardening. Survivors include her son, Robert (Rita) Johnson of Kearney; daughters, Janis O'Mara of Kearney, Jill (Mike) Haskill of Elm Creek and Jean (John) Cullen of Sunriver, Ore.; eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; sister, Rose Davis and family of Overton; and special friends, the Denson and Dolan families of Lexington, Kearney and Gibbon. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Johnnie Johnson; son-in- law, Jim O'Mara; great-grandson, William L. Englehardt; five brothers and three sisters. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ne/dawson/obits/j/johnson149gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nefiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb