Obituary: David Ray Johnson

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JOHNSON, DAVID RAY  Age 87 years, of 511 N. Jefferson St., 
Kittanning, Pa., died
Thursday, March 23, 1972, in the Armsdale Home & Hospital. 
He was the son of the late
David and Frances Kefover Johnson. being born April 8, 1884. 
He was a former 
Masontown businessman, where he was owner and operator of a 
plumbing and heating
shop until his retirement. He was a member of the Masontown Presbyterian Church. His
wife, Eliza Ann Johnson, preceded him in death in 1938. Surviving 
are four daughters,
Mrs. Robert (Pauline) Chalfant of Kittanning; Mrs. William (Jane) Sterling of
Masontown; Mrs. John (Ruth) Newcomer of St. Petersburg, Fla.; 
Mrs. Max (Alwilda)
Murphy of Dallas, Texas; also nine grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren; two sisters.
Mrs. Sidney (Nellie) Huhn of Pittsburgh; Mrs. Elizabeth Emery 
of Washington, Pa.
Friends will be received in the Grant R. Townsend Funeral Home, Masontown, after 2 
p.m. today and until Sunday at 2 p.m.. the hour of service, 
with Rev. Robert A. Orr Jr.
officiating. Interment in the Greendale Cemetery.