Crosby County Biographies

Martha and Temple Johnston

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• Block 27
• Lot 13
• Graves 1 and 2

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JOHNSTON, Joseph E.

Birth: April 25, 1871 Geneva Co., Ala.

Death: June 23, 1966

Father: T.W. JOHNSTON

Mother: Nancy SPEARS

Religion: Church of Christ

Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom

JOHNSTON, Martha Ellen

Born: February 26, 1878 Alvard,Tx.

Death: July 3, 1970

Father: W.P.VERMILLION

Mother: Rebecca DENNIS

Religion: Church of Christ

Crosbyton since 1910

Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom

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• J.E. Johnston Dies; Rites Set

CROSBYTON (Special) — Services for J.E. (Temple) Johnston, 95, longtime Crosby County resident, are slated at 3 p.m. Sunday in Crosbyton Church of Christ.

Officiating will be Bill Bryant, minister of the church. Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of King Funeral Home.

Johnston died at 9:40 p.m. Thursday in Crosbyton Hospital. He was a native of Geneva County, Ala., and came to Crosby County in 1909, settling at Old Emma. In 1911, he moved to Crosbyton.

Survivors are his wife, Martha; five sons, J.E. Jr., Crosbyton; Tom, Lakeside, Calif.; W.L., Arlington; Louis, Lamesa, and Derek, San Antonio; three daughters, Mrs. Ora Raymond, Crosbyton; Mrs. R. L. Little, Richardson, and Mrs. Thomas Genovese, Silver Springs, Md.; one brother, Dan, Hollis, Okla.; one sister, Mrs. Marve Riddle, Silverton; 18 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.

Published in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, June 1966

Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes

• Mrs. Johnston´s Rites Planned

CROSBYTON (Special) — Mrs. Martha Ellen Johnston, 92, longtime area resident, died about 2:20 p.m. Friday in Crosbyton Clinic-Hospital.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Church of Christ here. Officiating will be Roger Turner, minister, and Carrol Robertson, Church of Christ missionary.

Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery directed by King Funeral Home.

Mrs. Johnston had lived in Crosbyton since 1910.

Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Ora Raymond of Crosbyton, Mrs. Claudia Little of Richardson and Mrs. Dorothea Genovese of Silver Springs, Md.; five sons, Tom of Lakeside, Calif., Bill of Arlington, Louis of Lamesa, Frank of San Antonio and Joe of Crosbyton; 18 grandchildren and several great grandchildren.

Published in Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Saturday, July 4, 1970

Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes

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