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In Memory

Bess (Bessie) Johnson (Wilson) - Class Of 1915

OBITUARY INFORMATION FROM FIND-A-GRAVE WEBSITE:

Bess Mable Johnson Wilson
BIRTH          20 Jul 1897, Indiana, USA
DEATH          6 Jan 1979 (aged 81), Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, USA
BURIAL         Greenlawn Cemetery, Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana, USA
PLOT           Section J
MEMORIAL ID    133219447

This information and the pictures below were obtained from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133219447/bess-mable-wilson. The newspaper picture below was originally published in the The Franklin Evening Star (Franklin, Indiana) 29 Dec 1962, Saturday, Page 1. The picture above was obtained from the 1915 HHS Aurora yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1915Images/

Bess (Bessie) Johnson Wilson gravestone, Class of 1915  Bess (Bessie) Johnson Wilson gravestone, Class of 1915

Bess (Bessie) Johnson Wilson newspaper photo, Class of 1915


INFORMATION FROM FAMILY SEARCH WEBSITE:

Brief Life History of Bessie Mabel

When Bessie Mabel Johnson was born on 20 July 1897, in Portage, Porter, Indiana, United States, her father, John David Johnson, was 37 and her mother, Mary Jane Briggs, was 32. She married Russell Conwell Wilson on 7 July 1923, in Columbus, Columbus Township, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Portage Township, Porter, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died on 6 January 1979, in Franklin, Franklin Township, Johnson, Indiana, United States, at the age of 81.

This information was obtained from: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/LDYQ-6K1.