OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 125, 20 February 1941, Page 9

OBITUARY

Mrs. M. Johnson

The death of Mrs. Margarette Johnson. widow of the late Captain Henry Johnson, formerly harbourmaster at AVellipgtoo, occurred on Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M. H. Oram, Featherston Street, Palmerston North.

Born in Queenstown. South Island, on September 2, .18(13, Mrs. Johnson was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Janies Taylor, formerly of Carriekfergus, County Antrim, North Ireland. who arrived in New Zealand in 1860. She spent most of her girlhood in Greyinouth and was educated at a boarding school in Christchurch at a time when it took a three-day coaching journey across the ranges. In 1885 she married Captain Henry Johnson, who later was for many years harbourmaster in Wellington. It was in Wellington Mrs. Johnson spent practically the whole of her married life and there her interests centred in her home, her family, and the Presbyterian Church, in which her husband served as an elder. Captain Johnson predeceased her in 1926.

In recent years Mrs. Johnson travelled extensively to England anil the East, her last trip being made to England to visit a grandson, now 2nd Lieutenant Harry Oram, and she left on her homeward journey shortly before' war broke out.

Of a family of five there are three living, two sons. Mr. 11. J. S. Johnson, of Hamilton, and Mr. W. 11. Johnson, of Wellington, and one daughter, Mrs. Oram.

The funeral took place in Wellington yesterday.