To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Texas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Texas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 11/5/21 • Approved: 11/5/21 • Last Updated: 11/8/21 • R467135-G0-S3
August 7, 1914-July 13, 1934
Gone but not forgotten
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Wheeler Times - July 19, 1934
Miss Elsie Mae Johnston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.I. Johnston, who live four miles northeast of Wheeler, died Friday following a brief illness. She was born August 7, 1914, at Chillicothe and died July 13, 1934, at Wheeler, at the age of 19 years, 11 months and six days. She is survived by her parents and three brothers, Ollen, Paul and Lawrence Johnston and three sisters, Mrs. Zelma Reid, Ruth and Mary Bell Johnston, all of Wheeler and a number of other relatives.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at the Baptist church in Wheeler by Rev. A.C. Wood, assisted by Rev. Alamo Starkey, with interment at the Wheeler cemetery.
The pall bearers were James Rollin, George Riley, Clyde Shobbs, Curtis Weeks, D.B. Weeks and Bernice Derryberry.
Funeral arrangements were in charge of the Wheeler Funeral Home, D.A. Hunt, manager.
Contributed on 11/5/21
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 467135