OBIT: Lois Jean (TIPTON) JOHNS, 1996, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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    JOHNS
  
    Mrs. Lois Jean (Tipton) Johns, 51, of 785 Antrim Lane, Greencastle, Pa.,
  died Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1996, at her home.  Born Sept. 17, 1945, in
  Somerset County, she was the daughter of the late James Russell and
  Cordilla E. (Shockey) Tipton.  She graduated from Somerset Area Senior High
  School in 1963.  She was a 1974 graduate of the Allegany Community College
  in Cumberland, Md., where she received her BA in nursing.  She and her
  husband Gary Lee Johns were married May 12, 1982.  In addition to her
  husband, she is survived by three sons, John Philip Stoner Jr., Hagerstown,
  Md.; Theodore Russell "Rusty" Stoner, Clearspring, Md.; and Mark Alan
  Stoner, Roanoke, Va.; three grandchildren; a half-sister, Grace Thiel,
  Somerset; three sisters Edith M. Morgan, Somerset, Emma L. Stanfield,
  Atwater, Ohio, and Barbara A. Tipton, LeCanto, Fla.; two brothers, Jacob H.
  Tipton, Saramore Hills, Ohio, and Harold E. Tipton, Ravenna, Ohio; and a
  number of nieces and nephews.  She was preceded in death by a sister,
  Thelma I. Ritenour, and a brother, Charles Russell Tipton.  Services will
  be held today, Saturday, at 1:30 p.m. at the Minnich-Miller-May Funeral
  Home, Greencastle.
  
  Daily American, December 14, 1996
  
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