The name, Mrs. Vessie Hively, caught my attention. She was Lora Dee Johnson who married Vessie Hively, son of David A. and Annie Sanders Hively. Fern Quoting Vera Reeves <[email protected]>: > Calico Rock Progress - Aug 2, 1940 – Funeral of Former Sheriff Held Sunday > Funeral services for Delbert O. Johnson of Melbourne, former sheriff and > collector of Izard County were held at the Baptist Church at Melbourne > Sunday at 3:00 p.m., with the Rev Connor Moorehead of Batesville, > superintendent of the Batesville District and Rev R. A. Robertson, pastor of > the Methodist Church at Melbourne, in charge. One of the largest assemblages > ever attending a funeral in this section joined in a fitting tribute to an > esteemed neighbor and citizen. > The Higginbotham Funeral Service was in charge of funeral arrangements. > Interment was in Melbourne Cemetery. > Mr Johnson died Friday morning, in a Batesville Hospital, after a > week’s > illness from Tularemia, caused by a tick bite. > Mr Johnson had been sheriff of Izard County since January 1, 1938 and > was a candidate for re-nomination. He previously had served two terms, from > 1926 to 1930. He was born near Day, in the east part of the county, and > lived there on a farm until 1922 when he moved to Melbourne to engage in the > automobile business. He served as deputy sheriff under G. R. Landers from > 1921 to 1925. He was game warden in this county from 1931 to 1934, and > served as county collector for the State Revenue Department from 1934 to > 1938. He was a member of the Methodist Church and the Masonic Lodge, being a > past master of the Ash Flat Lodge. Besides being a popular and efficient > official, Mr Johnson distinguished himself in his home community and county > as one is sympathy with all undertakings for the betterment of his home > section and stood ever ready to aid his neighbors. > Surviving, are his wife; three sons, Van P. court stenographer of the > Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, and Delbert Jr., of Melbourne, and Calvin > Johnson of Walnut Ridge; two daughters, Miss Vesta Johnson of Melbourne and > Mrs Vessie Hively of Wasco, Calif.; a brother, Judd Johnson of Ash Flat and > two sisters, Mrs Arch Gleghorn of Day and Mrs Ellen McAnally of Wenatchee, > Wash > > Wife's obit > > Melbourne Times - Mar 30, 1961 – Mrs Beulah Johnson Services Held Sunday > Graveside services were held Sunday, March 26 for Mrs Beulah Majorie > (sp) Johnson, wife of the late D. O. Johnson. > She was born November 1, 1886 at Wiseman, Arkansas and died March 21, > 1961 at Bakersfield, California. > She is survived by two sons, Calvin Johnson of Dallas, Tex., and D. > Johnson of Phoenix, Ariz.; two daughters, Vesta Sayer of Belmont, Calif., > and Lora D. Hively of Wasco, Calif.; two sisters, Lora Vaughn, Orange, > Calif., Thera Wade, Orange, Calif.; 10 grandchildren. > Service was conducted by Bro. Sellers and burial was in charge of Crouch > Funeral Home. > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >