OBIT: Martha (JONES) JOHNSTON, 1938, Tyrone, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MARTHA R. JOHNSTON

  Mrs. Martha R. Johnston, wife of J. K. Johnston, retired 
superintendent of the Tyrone Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
company, died suddenly at her home, corner North avenue and Fourteenth 
street, this morning at 11:45 o'clock following a heart attack.  Mrs. 
Johnston had not been in the best of health for some, time but had been 
able to be about.  This morning at eight o'clock she suffered a severe 
heart attack, passing away a few hours later. 
  Mrs. Martha R. Johnston was a daughter of Alfred W. and Suzanne 
(Washington) Jones and was born at Broad Ford, Fayette county, on 
January 6, 1866.  On December 23, 1886, at Greensburg, Pa., she was 
united in marriage with John Kilgore Johnston. 
  Surviving are her husband and these children: Mrs. Bowman Duncan, of 
Hollidaysburg; Mrs. Norman N. Lawrence, of New Castle; and Mrs. Harry 
Barnes, of Tyrone; also three grandchildren, Suzanne Kanour, Martha 
Lawrence and John Barnes. 
  She was a member of the First Presbyterian church and the Moore 
Mission Circle. 
  Mrs. Johnston was a resident of Tyrone from November 1888, to 
November 1889 when Mr. Johnston was acting division engineer of the 
Tyrone Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad company.  In November 1903 
the family moved to Tyrone when Mr. Johnston was made superintendent of 
the Tyrone Division. 
  She was active in church and civic affairs and for a number of years 
was director of the charitable work of the Women's Aid of the Tyrone 
Division which did much to relieve distress among the families of 
railroad employees. 
  Funeral arrangements have not completed.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 6, 1938

MRS. JOHNSTON'S FUNERAL

  The funeral of the late Mrs. J. K. Johnston, who died at her home on 
North avenue on Thursday morning, will be held on Sunday afternoon at 
2:30 o'clock at the home, in charge of Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Speer, pastor 
of the First Presbyterian church, followed by burial in Grandview 
cemetery.

Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, Pa., January 7, 1938