John Edsel JOHNSON

1925 - 2011  (86 years)

• Name	John Edsel JOHNSON
  Birth	5 Apr 1925	Ross Twp., Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 Oct 2011	Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
  Burial	Beachburg, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I5531	Whitewater Region Early Families
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2016

  
  

  Father	Samuel Clemens JOHNSON,   b. 29 Nov 1882, Ross Twp., Renfrew, Ontario, Canada d. 16 May 1971, Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Mary Ethel BROWN,   b. 15 Jun 1890, Thornby, Pontiac Co., Quebec, Canada d. 1 Jan 1959, Cobden, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	4 Oct 1911	Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F3568	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lola GRAHAM,   b. 25 Sep 1928, Westmeath Twp., Renfrew, Ontario, Canada d. 30 Jun 2015, Pembroke, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	10 Jun 1948	Greenwood United Church, Westmeath Twp., Renfrew Co., Ontario   [1]
  Family ID	F3567	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2008

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Johnson, Edsel & Lola nee Graham from the collection of Lola (Mrs. Edsel) Johnson
  		Johnson, Samuel C & Mary Ethel (nee Brown) children: George, Leona, Stewart, Lillis, Osborne, Edsel from the collection of Lola (Mrs. Edsel) Johnson
  		Johnson brothers: Edsel & Stewart, 1998 from the collection of Joy Van Grinsven
  		Johnson, George & Edsel from the collection of Bonny Johnson
  		Johnson, George & Marjorie Dick wedding, 1942 Attendants: Beatrice Bradley & Edsel Johnson from the collection of Bonny Johnson
  		Johnson, Edsel & Lola Graham wedding, 1948; Attendants: Ivan Labow, Delbert Johnson, Irene (Labow) Johnson, Betty (Rowe) Clouthier from the collection of Bonny Johnson

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Johnson, John Edsel obituary Fraser-Morris & Heubner Funeral Home http://www.frasermorrisheubner.com/notices/J-Johnson
  		RTHx-Zion Line Telephone Company - Harris Burns & Sam McMillan retire The Cobden Sun, Feb 11, 1954 p. 1
  		RTHx-SS#9 Ross Twp. Reunion, 1995, pt2 Newspaper clipping from the scrapbook collection of Millicent McIntyre provided by Florence Dick
  		Moss, Mary receives 1987 Cobden Citizen Award from Cobden Civitan The Cobden Sun, Jan 6, 1988
  		Cobden District Civitan Executive Newspaper clipping from the scrapbook collection of Jack & Janice McLaren, compiled by Irene McLaren, 1986

  
  

  Headstones

  Gravestone-Johnson, Edsel & Lola nee Graham Beachburg Union Cemetery, Beachburg, Ontario photographed by Fay Bennett, Oct 2016

  
  

• Notes

  from Clarke Johnson Edsel had the original trunk that John Johnson brought over from Scotland. He worked in Smith Falls Ontario during the war at a plant that made truck bodies for the military. He boarded at Aunt Maggie Jacksons. He worked 12 hour shifts and 72 hours a week. from 7 pm to 7 am. for approix .49 cents an hour. he remembers Aunt Maggie coaxing her husband to take her an Edsel and Delmer Thibeau to the Ottawa Exibition. Edsel remembers them going into the monkey house and there was a female monkey nursing her baby and grooming and eating the fleas? off the baby. Aunt Maggie laughed so hard she nearly peed her pants. They were laughing at the monkey and Aunt Maggie for laughing so hard.

  
  

• Sources

  [S651] Transcribed by Norah H. Cousins-La Rocque, Church Record - Wesleyan Methodist Marriage Transcriptions - Westmeath Pastoral Charge Wesleyan Methodist Marriages, Renfrew Co., Ontario, (Pembroke, UOVGG, Mar 1994).