Bryan Co., OK; Obituary: Vera Laverne Johnson - j525

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Durant Daily Democrat
Trudy Marlow
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Source:  9/29/1999 - Durant Daily Democrat Survivors names omitted.
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Vera Laverne Johnson, 84

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the United 
Pentecostal Church, Moore, for Vera Laverne Johnson, 84, 
Moundsville, W. Va., formerly of Durant, who died Sunday, 
Sept. 26, 1999, in Moundsville. The Rev. Charles Clanton 
will officiate.

Mrs. Johnson was born Dec. 28, 1914, in Purcell to Theodore 
Claude and Nellie P. (Eppler) Stevens. She married Iva Bryant 
Johnson on Dec. 28, 1934. She has been a member of the United 
Pentecostal Church for 64 years, serving as Sunday school 
teacher for over 60 years; home Bible study teacher; Ladies 
Auxiliary director; foreign and home missions correspondence 
director; Bible Quiz Team master, taking several teams to the 
national finals; and dorm parent, counselor and teacher at 
church camps each year. She won the Oregon honorary Mother 
of the Year award. 

Mrs. Johnson was preceded in death by her husband; parents; 
daughter, Wilma Johnson; six brothers; a sister; and two grandsons. 

Family visitation will be 6-8 p.m. Sunday at Primrose Funeral 
Home, Norman. 

Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery. 

Primrose Funeral Service, Norman, is handling arrangements.