Johnson, Emily A. (Miss) 1885-1932

JOHNSON

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke--Volunteer
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:35

Source: Hawarden Independent(1-28-1932)

Birth: March 24, 1885
Death: January 20, 1932

Emily Adeline Johnson was born on a farm near Lennox, South Dakota, March 24, 1885, and died January 20, 1932, at Alliance, Nebraska. The immediate cause of her death was pneumonia. When she was seven years old the family moved from the Lennox farm to one six and a half miles northwest of Hawarden, and fourteen years later they moved into Hawarden.

She was the youngest of a family of seven children born to Abraham and Sophia Johnson. A sister, Hannah, passed away in April, 1907, and a brother, Joseph, last September. Her mother died in 1912 and her father in 1920. Surviving are one sister Miss Ida S. Johnson of San Diego, California; and three brother, George E. of Gregory, South Dakota; William H. of Hawarden, Iowa, and Arthur A. of Great Falls, Montana; also four nephews and four nieces.

From early childhood she was a faithful Christian and for over thirty years had been a devoted member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. She was ever of a studious nature and a great reader. Her school life began in the country school. In 1908 she received the Bachelors Degree from Union College and in 1922 the Masters Degree from the Nebraska State University. She also studied at the University at Berkeley, California.

In the years following her graduation from Union College she taught in church schools in Iowa and California, in a high school in Arizona, and in the English departments in Cheyenne River Academy at Harvey, North Dakota, and Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska. She wrote many stories and articles which have appeared in the "Youth's Instructor," "Our Little Friend," and other publication for children and youth. "From Plow Boy to Prophet" was a small book in which she wrote the story of Elisha for young children.

She was always interested in helping children, the aged and afflicted. Wherever she went she gave untiringly of her time, talent and money in working for these classes. She led children in Sabbath School and Missionary Volunteer classes in missionary work. For a number of years she supported two native girls in mission schools in China, and later two native girls in India. If all the people of every color and from every country who have been benefited by her influence, encouragement, and in material ways could gather, it would make a large company for it could truthfully be said of her that she went about doing good.

Funeral services were conducted at Alliance, Nebraska, by Elder A.E. Johnson before the body was brought here, and by Elder J.R. Nelson and M.N. Skadsheim at the home of her brother, W.H. Johnson, in this city at 1:30 Monday afternoon and in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church at 2 o'clock. Interment was made in the local cemetery. Here she will await the sounding of the resurrection trumpet of the God she served so faithfully for so many years.

Out of town friends who attended the services in Hawarden were Paul Schopbach of Lincoln, Nebraska; Mr. and Mrs. D.O. Anderson and Mrs. Linden Anderson of Viborg, South Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Erickson, Frank Erickson and Lude Carlson of Lennox, South Dakota; and Mr. and Mrs. George Juhl of Rodney, Iowa.