Dallam Co., TX Obits: Katherine O'Brate Inman Johnston ****************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ****************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Helen Cook March 4, 2007, 5:11 pm Dalhart Texan KATE INMAN JOHNSTON, 94, FORMER PIONEER DALHARTAN, DIES TODAY DALHART TEXAN Newspaper dated-Feb 16, 1959 Kate Inman Johnston--first Dallam County Public Librarian in Dalhart and who would have been 93 years old next August--died this morning in the Thurmon Rest Home in Amarillo. Her body is being returned to Dalhart by the Walker Funeral Home and will begin lying in state in the Walker Chapel late Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 in the Walker Funeral chapel. They will be conducted by Minister Jack Clark of the First Christian Church of which Mrs Johnston was a pioneer member. Relatives said she might have been a charter member. Burial will be in Memorial Park cemetery beside her former husband, J.P. Inman, who had served as Dallam County Judge from 1900 to 1908 and is generally remembered as Judge Inman. Judge Inman was fatally injured in 1919 on his ranch west of Dalhart when a team ran away, throwing him from a load of hay and the loaded wagon passing over his body, inflicting internal injuries. Judge Inman came to Dallam County a year or less after it was organized in 1890 and settled at Texline til elected county judge. After retiring as judge, he resumed ranching west of Dalhart. He was a member of the Church of Christ. He and Mrs Inman were married at Clarendon in the early 1900's. They were prominent in the community, civic and religious life of Dalhart. Mrs Inman Johnston's maiden name was Kate O'Brate. When the Dallam County Free Library was formally established in 1921, Mrs. JOHNSTON became its first librarian, serving from March 1921 until December of that same year. Later her niece, Mrs Earl (Iris) McIlroy was county librarian for some years. Mrs. McIlroy and her family still live here. Judge Inman was a brother of Mrs. C.E. Crow, also Dallam County pioneers, also living in Dalhart. Mrs. Johnston's daughter, Mrs. Temple Paine of Castro Valley, California, is to arrive in Dalhart tomorrow. She will be remembered here as Miss Temple Palmer. Also surviving is a son, Joe, in Missouri. Additional Comments: Both children, Temple & Joe, now deceased. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/txfiles/