SOUTH PARIS — Frances Turner Sturtevant Johnson passed away, Wednesday, Dec. 14, at Market Square Health Care Center.

She was born March 4, 1918, at home near Hall’s Pond. Her parents were Percy L. and Evangeline (Woodworth) Turner. She was one of eight children. At an early age, her family moved to a farm at the intersection of King Hill and Christian Ridge. She attended school at the VFW Hall, King Hill School and graduated from the former South Paris High School on Pine Street in 1935.

In 1936, she married Howard Field Sturtevant and moved to a farm close to her parents’ home on Christian Ridge Road. They raised three daughters, Nancy, Shirley and Sandy. They were her pride and joy. She was a loyal wife, who worked as hard in the fields as she worked in the home. Howard died in 1967.

Frances then moved further north to a new home, but still on the Christian Ridge Road. This was the house of her dreams. She met and married N. Herman Johnson in 1971, and inherited two more daughters, Chrystal and Pamela and their families. They were married for 24 years before his death in 1995.

Frances worked at Clifford’s Rexall in Market Square. When her daughters were older, she went to work at Floyd Moulton’s Red and White and for Gordon Smith’s Shop ‘n Save as bookkeeper and head cashier from 1956 to 1971.

She is survived by Nancy and her husband, Jack Quinn III, Shirley Miller, Sandy Weston and companion, Bob Crowell, Chrystal and her husband, Jack Walker and Pam Ericson; 14 grandchildren, John Walker, Evie Swan, John C. Quinn IV, Lee Hesse, Debbie Reny, Greg Walker, Mark Weston, Chris Ericson, Cindy Fischer, Brad Walker, Greg Weston, Mark Ericson, Paul Ericson and Jodi McAllister; 18 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; siblings, Mary and her husband, Cliff Parsons, Don and his wife, Faye Turner, Robert Turner; one sister-in-law, Ethelyn Turner; and many beloved nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by two husbands and companion, Chandler Briggs; two sons-in-law, the Rev. William Miller and Bud Ericson; two sisters, Marcia Buck and Glenna Gay; and brother, Richard Turner.

Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.oxfordhillsfuneralservices.com.