Obit of Johnston, Louise - Bryan County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 11 Mar 2007 Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::West Lawn Memorial Park--Eugene OR Eugene Register Guard 27 Oct 2004 Louise Johnston A private funeral will be held for Louise R. Johnston of Eugene who died Oct. 24 of age-related causes. She was 93. She was born Nov. 21, 1910, in Durant, Okla., to Emery and Virginia Whitlow Risner. She married James Johnston on Aug. 22,1937, in Albuquerque, N.M. He died Sept. 27, 1991. Johnston taught at several schools on the Hopi and Navajo Indian reservations and met her husband when both were teaching on the Navajo reservation in 1937. She moved to Oregon in 1953 and taught at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, retiring in 1971. She and her husband were teachers on the island of Palau for two years. She moved to Bend and worked in an antiques co-op at Sisters Hotel in Sisters. She had lived in Eugene since 1984. She enjoyed spending time with her family, travel, knitting, oil painting and sewing. She enjoyed genealogy and, at 87, had written a book about her family's Choctaw heritage. She was a member of the Choctaw Tribe and also belonged to the Order of Eastern Star and St. Matthew's Episcopal Church. Survivors include two daughters, Jo Odenthal and Margaret Stewart, both of Eugene; a son, Jim Johnston of Redmond; a sister, JoNita Misenheimer of McAlester, Okla.; six grandchildren; and two great- grandchildren. The private service will be at West Lawn Memorial Park & Funeral Home in Eugene. Burial will be at West Lawn Memorial Park. Memorial contributions may be made to Willamette Community Hospice. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm