OBIT: Florence (Lohr) JOHNSON, 1931, native of Somerset County, PA

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FLORENCE JOHNSON

  Mrs. E. C. Johnson, daughter of Hon. and Mrs. Robert W. Lohr, of Jenner 
Township, died in the Mendenhall Hospital, Johnstown, on Thursday afternoon, 
March 26th, after giving birth to twin daughters.  Her death was due to uremic 
poisoning.
  She is survived by the twin babies, her husband and parents and the following 
brothers and sisters: Lester and Walter Lohr, both residing in Jenner Township, 
and Miss Edith Lohr, a junior, Miss Bertha Lohr, a sophomore, and Robert W. 
Lohr, Jr., a freshman, in State College.
  Following Mrs. Johnson's death, the body was prepared for burial by Undertaker 
Blanset of Stoyestown, who later removed it to the Johnson home; near 
Stoyestown.  The funeral, which was largely attended, was held at 10 o'clock 
Sunday morning, March 29, in the Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, Rev. J. S. Shannon, 
pastor, officiating.  Interment followed in the church cemetery.
  Mrs. Johnson was born in Jenner Township, and with the exception of the time 
she spent as a student in the State Teacher's College at Indiana, Pa., and the 
University of Pittsburgh, and several years in teaching in the high school at 
Cherrytree, Pa., spent practically all of her life in her native township.  She 
was united in marriage with Ernest C. Johnson of Shade Township, who is employed 
in an engineering corps of the Pennsylvania State Highway Department, on 
Christmas Day, 1929, and since that time the couple had resided most of the time 
in Shade Township.
  After teaching at Cherrytree for several years, she was a member of the 
faculty of the Somerset High School for several years.
  Mrs. Johnson was a very capable and estimable young woman, who by her amiable 
disposition, made friends wherever she went.  Early in life she was confirmed a 
member in the Mt. Zion Lutheran Church and remained steadfast to her church 
obligations until death.  She was a teacher in the Mt. Zion Sunday school for 
many years.
  When her father started raising turkeys on a large scale several years ago, 
she at once became interested in the work and proved of great help in the 
success achieved by Mr. Lohr and his family, and in January, 1930, she was 
chosen "turkey queen" at the Pennsylvania State Farm Products Show at 
Harrisburg.

Meyersdale Republican, April 9, 1931