McCurtain Co. OK - OBIT:    Opal Johnson

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McCurtain County Local Newspaper:

July 11, 1925

A SAD EVENT OCCURRED FRIDAY AT MOUNTAIN FORK
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WHEN MISS OPAL JOHNSON, OF THIS CITY, WAS DROWNED -- FUNERAL SATURDAY.

One of the saddest events which has ever occurred in this vicinity was the
death of Miss Opal Johnson, who was drowned in Mountain Fork river about
eight miles east of Broken Bow, Friday afternoon, June 5th.  She had gone to
the river with her people directly after noon and the accident happened
between 1:00 and 2:00.  A doctor was summoned immediately and Dr. N.L. Barker
was waiting at the river when she was taken from the water.  Everything
possible was done to save her, but owing to the fact that she had been under
the water for more than an hour, she could not be revived.  She was considered
a good swimmer and it is thought that she took the cramps causing her to
drown.

She was taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Lackey, with whom she and her
father, C.R. Johnson, made their home, and prepared for burial.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. M.L. Matthews, of Idabel, in the
First Methodist Church, Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large number
of sorrowing friends and relatives.

Miss Johnson was a member of the graduating class of the Broken Bow high
school this year and was to have been the bride of Corporal F.F. Roach, of
Fort Clark, Texas, on June 15th.  Mr. Roach came in response to a telegram
dispatched to him, but arrived Sunday morning, too late for the funeral.

The senior class, of which Miss Johnson was a member, marched in a body to
the funeral and their floral offerings were perhaps the most beautiful of
all that profuse and lovely mass of flowers.

Miss Johnson was about twenty years of age, a beautiful and refined young
woman, just in the bloom of life, when all the world seemed so full of
promise for her.  She had been a member of the Methodist Church since she
was twelve years of age, and ever lived a wholesome life.  By her lovable
and kind disposition, she had won the love and admiration of all who knew
her.

She is survived by her father, C.R. Johnson, of this city, one brother, C.E.
Johnson, of Mt. Vernon, Texas, and two sisters, Mrs. Jewel Duncan, of 
Greenville, Texas, and Mrs. R.D. Lackey, of this city, all of whom were
present at the funeral, besides a large circle of friends who will sorely
miss her.
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