The Rock Island Argus
October 20, 1950Mrs. Emma Prances Johnson, 79, , 629 Thirty-fifth street, Rock Island, a resident of the quad cities, the past 30 years, died at 7:45 o'clock last night in Kewanee, where she had been visiting a grandaughter.
Mrs. Johnson, the former Emma Fances Best was born in Palmyra, Ill, and was married to Abraham Johnson, Nov. 21, 1888, in Carlinville, Ill. He died Dec. 5, 1944.
Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. J. V. Gregg of Rock Island, Mrs. Richard Foley and Mrs. Irene Moomey, both of Rockford, Mrs. Mabel Stone of Springfield, Mrs. Bryan Bock of Williamsfield, Ill., and Mrs. Cecil Godfrey of Tempe, Ariz.; two sons, Louis Johnson of Davenport and Alva Johnson of Greenfield Ill.; 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.