OBIT: Elizabeth JOHNSTON, 1988, formerly from Somerset County, PA

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  JOHNSTON
  
  Dr. Elizabeth Johnston, 87, died at the Congregational Center in Pittsburgh
  Thursday, June 16, 1988.  She was a retired professor of English literature
  who had taught at California State Teachers' College and at Waynesburg
  College, as well as at Pierce College in Greece, while on a Fulbright
  Scholarship.  Early in her career, she also taught in the Meyersdale and
  the Monongahela School system.  Dr. Johnston held a bachelor's degree from
  West Virginia University and a doctorate from the University of
  Pittsburgh.  She had an interest in genealogy and was a member of the Three
  Rivers' Chapter of Colonial Dames.  She also traveled extensively and in her
  early years, took a summer long bicycling trip through England, gathering
  information on Johnstons in those areas.  She was a daughter of the late
  Robert H. and Caroline (Smith) Johnston of Salisbury.  She had two
  siblings:  Robert S. Johnston, who died in 1956, and Louise J. Bender, who
  died in 1986.  She is survived by a nephew, Dr. Thomas R. Bender,
  Morgantown, W.Va.; a niece, Kathryn B. Lindeman of Glen Dale, Md; also a
  great-nephew, Thomas R. Bender, currently an undergraduate at the
  University of Idaho; and a great-niece, Laura Ann Bender, a graduate
  student at West Virginia University.  Friends will be received today
  (Friday) 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. in Thomas Funeral Home, Salisbury, where funeral
  services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. David E. Fetter
  officiating.  Interment, Salisbury Cemetery.
  
  Daily American, June 17, 1988
  
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