This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GORANSON Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/12133 Message Board Post: Jamestown Journal 6/9/1943 Mrs. Julia C. Goranson, 76, for years a prominent churchwoman, and mother of Miss Ebba H. Goranson and Arthur R. Goranson, directors of Jamestown Public School Music, died at her home, 5 Lincoln Street, at 8 a.m. today(June 9, 1943). SHe had been ill for over a year. She is also survived by a grand-daughter, Miss Phyllis Goranson of Painted Post, NY and a grandson, Delbert Goranson of the University of Illinois, Champagne. She was the widow of N. R. Goranson who died in 1912. Mrs. Goranson was born in Sweden, Nov 8, 1867 and came to America in 1873. Her childhood was spent in Northern Pennsylvania, she later moved to Chicago and then to Jamestown in 1908, residing her ever since. Mrs. Goranson was a Sunday School teacher at the Zion Mission Church for 32 years. Until forced to resign because of ill health, she sang in the church choir for more than 30 years while the choir was directed by her husband, and then by her son. She was a member of severla church organizations. Interment will be in Lake View Cemetery in Jamestown, NY.