The Valley Falls Vindicator Jefferson County Wednesday January 3, 1940 Mary Ethel ARNOLD, the daughter of Oliver C. and Jennie O. Arnold, was born near Winchester, Kansas on July 8th, 1880 and passed away at her home Friday night, Dec. 22nd, after a few hours illness. At the age of 3, she moved wtih her parents to the Pleasant Hill neighborhood in Shawnee county. She united with the Pleasant Hill M.E. church in early life. On June 30th, 1926, she was united in marriage to John F. JOHNSON in Topeka, Kans., they living in or near Topeka until the spring of 1936 when they moved to the Bloomfield neighborhood. Mourning her death are her husband and two sisters, Mrs. Edna MILLER of Valley Falls and Mrs. Anna CONWELL, of Topeka, Kansas; a niece, Mrs. Lorena HARDEN, of Topeka and a nephew, Arnold MILLER, of Valley Falls and other relatives and friends. Funeral services were held at the Pleasant Hill church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. Sam Hedrick officiating and burial was in the family lot at the Rochester cemetery. The body was at the Hagge Funeral Home until service time.