OBIT: Alvin R. JOHNSON, 1975, native of Somerset County, PA

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  ALVIN R. JOHNSON
  
  Alvin R. Johnson, 86, of Mill Run RD 1 died Feb. 1, 1975 in Connellsville
  General Hospital.  Born May 23, 1898 in Springfield Township, a son of the
  late John W. and Emma Geary Johnson.  Was a retired coal miner of the
  Republic Steel Corp. and was a township supervisor in the Springfield
  Township, Fayette County for 12 years.  He was a member of the Mill Run
  Grange and the Critchfield C. M. and A. Church.  He is survived by five
  sons:  Roy, Dale, William and Carol, all of Mill Run RD 1, and Lorenzo of
  Connellsville RD 2; two daughters Mrs. Clyde (Betty) Porterfield of Mill
  Run RD 1 and Mrs. Robert (Hattie Mae) Joll of Mill Run; 24 grandchildren;
  25 great grandchildren; two brothers, Leslie of Somerset and Russell of
  Siginaw, Mich.; and three sisters, Mrs. Hattie Ankney of Rockwood, Mrs.
  Kathleen Lawson of Yucca Valley, Cal. and Mrs. Laverne Younkin of
  Boswell.  He was preceded in death by his wife, Mrs. Effie Jane Schmuck
  Johnson in (?) two sons and two daughters.  Friends are being received at
  the Clyde Brooks Funeral Home, Inc. Rt. 711 at (?), where services will be
  held Wednesday at 1:30 and the Rev. Lionel (?) officiating. Interment, Imel
  Cemetery, (?) RD 1.
  
  Somerset American, February 3, 1975
  
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