Submitted by Georgia Gill-Elkins

South Bend Tribune Nov. 11, 1973
Mrs. Edna Johnson

   Mrs. Edna Johnson, 63, formerly of South Bend, died Friday in an Elmhurst, Ill., nursing home after an extended illness. She was born in South Bend on Nov. 1, 1910, and lived in South Bend most of her life moving to the Chicago area in 1950.  As Edna Smith, she was married in November 1927, to George Johnson, who died in 1965. she is survived by a sister, Mrs. Leona Schidler of Mishawaka;  a half-sister, Mrs.  Bessie Strahan of Mishawaka; and a half-brother R. C. Smith of Santa Cruz, Calif. 0
   Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Lisle, Ill. Burial will be Stevensville, Mich. Friends may call from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. today in the Pederson-Ryberg Funeral Homes In Elmhurst. She was employed with the Bendix Corp., South Bend in the 1940s.