WALES – Marion L. Johnson, 89, a resident of Pond Road, Wales, died Monday, Jan. 2, at home after a long illness. She was born Nov. 29, 1916, in Lewiston, the daughter of Charles O. R. and Annie (Stewart) Sherman. She attended school at Litchfield and also Webster grammar school and graduated from Edward Little High School in 1934.

On Oct. 11, 1940, in Wales, she married Cecil H. Johnson. Mr. Johnson passed away in 1991. She was a homemaker and baby sitter for many area children.

She was a charter member of the Wales Presbyterian Church, an elder (first Session), for 36 years, superintendent of the Wales Sunday School and also taught for many years. She was president and member of the Women’s Association, a 70-year member of the Wales Grange, a Cub Scout leader, school board member, church deacon and hosted the weekly bible study group at her home for many years.

For many years she organized the well-known Wales Church suppers, where her chocolate cream pies and homemade butter became famous.

She is survived by four sons, Larry Johnson and his wife, Ann, of Englewood, Fla., Darryl Johnson and his wife, Karen, Barry Johnson and his wife, Alicia, and Gregory Johnson, all of Wales; a daughter, Rosemary Johnson of Wales; two brothers, Robert Sherman and his wife, Alfreda, of Wales and Ralph Sherman and his wife, Dorothy of Litchfield; a sister, Madeline Stuart of Wales; eight grandsons; two great-grandsons; and five great-granddaughters.

She was predeceased by five brothers, Cecil, Charles, William, Walter and Stacey Sherman; and six sisters, Beatrice Danforth, Lilla King, Dorothy Sherman, Emma Sherman, Ruth Snyder and Helen Lyman.

Copy the Story Link