Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Tuesday, October 7, 1947

MRS. DELIA W. JOHNSON

Minden, Oct. 6 (Special). -- Funeral services were held Sunday in the McComb, Miss., Baptist church for Mrs. Delia Whittington Johnson, 86, who died in a Minden sanitarium Friday. A brief service was held Friday night at the Green Kleinegger funeral home in Minden with the Rev. V. G. Miles officiating.

Mrs. Johnson was visiting her son, John H. Johnson, Sr., in Minden when she became ill. She was born in Copiah county, Miss., and was a member of the McComb Baptist church.

She is survived by five daughters, Mrs. W. P. Crawford, Mrs. W. B. Statham and Mrs. C. W. Jones, all of McComb, Miss.; Mrs. R. M. Johnson, Houston, Texas; and Mrs. O. B. Bradshaw, Paducah, Ky.; a son, John H. Johnson, Sr.; Minden; a sister, Mrs. D. A. Dalton, Memphis, Tenn.; 22 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.