Wallowa County Chieftain, Enterprise, Oregon, 3 December 3, 2009
Sept. 18, 1915-Nov. 5, 2009
Winona Johnson Holloway, 94, died in Live Oak Calif.
She was born to well-known Wallowa County pioneers Thomas Grover and Zora Blanche Burgett Johnson, one of eight children.
Winona grew up in the valley, graduating from Wallowa High School in 1934 and E.O. Normal (now EOU) in La Grande in 1937.
After graduation from E.O. Normal, Winona taught school at Flora where she met Merritt L. Holloway. The couple were married in Lewiston, Idaho on May 23, 1938. Winona continued to teach at Arko, Troy, and Wallowa as the couple raised their three boys.
The family left Wallowa County for a ranch in Nevada in 1947 where Merritt took a job cowboying at Deep Springs College and Ranch. Winona developed an interest in anthropology and archaeology, and made valued connections with the Paiute descendants of the people who had lived in the region for a thousand years or more. The second of her autobiographical volumes, Moving Out, (published in1992) deals with the Nevada and Deep Springs period, from 1946 to 1950. She later studied the Navajo of the Rainbow Mountain area near Flagstaff and wrote about them in her third book.
The couple's daughter was born in 1955.
In 1957 Winona went back to school for her permanent teaching credential, graduating from California State University in Northridge in 1960.
Winona, like her mother, Zora, was a writer. Zora wrote "Wallowa Notes" for the Chieftain for many years, and Winona followed her example, publishing the first of three autobiographical volumes, Moving On in 1989. The volumes detail her family history in Wallowa in the early decades of the 20th century, up to 1947. The books are available in several local libraries in Wallowa County.
Winona's father, Grover was a Watkins product distributor, farmer, and auctioneer.
Winona is survived by a brother, Thomas K. Johnson of Wallowa; two sisters, Maybeth Wilson of Marion, La., and Grace Morres of Boise, Idaho; three sons, Tipton Holloway of Live Oak, Calif., Ted Holloway of Wellington, Nev., and Thomas Holloway of Vacaville, Calif.; daughter, Winona Holloway of Yerington, Nev.; eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Merritt L. Holloway.
A memorial was held in California Nov. 14, 2009.
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Another obituary was published by the Gridley Herald, California, 13 November 2009.
Sept. 18, 1915-Nov. 5, 2009
Winona Johnson Holloway, 94, died in Live Oak Calif.
She was born to well-known Wallowa County pioneers Thomas Grover and Zora Blanche Burgett Johnson, one of eight children.
Winona grew up in the valley, graduating from Wallowa High School in 1934 and E.O. Normal (now EOU) in La Grande in 1937.
After graduation from E.O. Normal, Winona taught school at Flora where she met Merritt L. Holloway. The couple were married in Lewiston, Idaho on May 23, 1938. Winona continued to teach at Arko, Troy, and Wallowa as the couple raised their three boys.
The family left Wallowa County for a ranch in Nevada in 1947 where Merritt took a job cowboying at Deep Springs College and Ranch. Winona developed an interest in anthropology and archaeology, and made valued connections with the Paiute descendants of the people who had lived in the region for a thousand years or more. The second of her autobiographical volumes, Moving Out, (published in1992) deals with the Nevada and Deep Springs period, from 1946 to 1950. She later studied the Navajo of the Rainbow Mountain area near Flagstaff and wrote about them in her third book.
The couple's daughter was born in 1955.
In 1957 Winona went back to school for her permanent teaching credential, graduating from California State University in Northridge in 1960.
Winona, like her mother, Zora, was a writer. Zora wrote "Wallowa Notes" for the Chieftain for many years, and Winona followed her example, publishing the first of three autobiographical volumes, Moving On in 1989. The volumes detail her family history in Wallowa in the early decades of the 20th century, up to 1947. The books are available in several local libraries in Wallowa County.
Winona's father, Grover was a Watkins product distributor, farmer, and auctioneer.
Winona is survived by a brother, Thomas K. Johnson of Wallowa; two sisters, Maybeth Wilson of Marion, La., and Grace Morres of Boise, Idaho; three sons, Tipton Holloway of Live Oak, Calif., Ted Holloway of Wellington, Nev., and Thomas Holloway of Vacaville, Calif.; daughter, Winona Holloway of Yerington, Nev.; eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Merritt L. Holloway.
A memorial was held in California Nov. 14, 2009.
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Another obituary was published by the Gridley Herald, California, 13 November 2009.
Wallowa County Chieftain, Enterprise, Oregon, 3 December 3, 2009
Sept. 18, 1915-Nov. 5, 2009
Winona Johnson Holloway, 94, died in Live Oak Calif.
She was born to well-known Wallowa County pioneers Thomas Grover and Zora Blanche Burgett Johnson, one of eight children.
Winona grew up in the valley, graduating from Wallowa High School in 1934 and E.O. Normal (now EOU) in La Grande in 1937.
After graduation from E.O. Normal, Winona taught school at Flora where she met Merritt L. Holloway. The couple were married in Lewiston, Idaho on May 23, 1938. Winona continued to teach at Arko, Troy, and Wallowa as the couple raised their three boys.
The family left Wallowa County for a ranch in Nevada in 1947 where Merritt took a job cowboying at Deep Springs College and Ranch. Winona developed an interest in anthropology and archaeology, and made valued connections with the Paiute descendants of the people who had lived in the region for a thousand years or more. The second of her autobiographical volumes, Moving Out, (published in1992) deals with the Nevada and Deep Springs period, from 1946 to 1950. She later studied the Navajo of the Rainbow Mountain area near Flagstaff and wrote about them in her third book.
The couple's daughter was born in 1955.
In 1957 Winona went back to school for her permanent teaching credential, graduating from California State University in Northridge in 1960.
Winona, like her mother, Zora, was a writer. Zora wrote "Wallowa Notes" for the Chieftain for many years, and Winona followed her example, publishing the first of three autobiographical volumes, Moving On in 1989. The volumes detail her family history in Wallowa in the early decades of the 20th century, up to 1947. The books are available in several local libraries in Wallowa County.
Winona's father, Grover was a Watkins product distributor, farmer, and auctioneer.
Winona is survived by a brother, Thomas K. Johnson of Wallowa; two sisters, Maybeth Wilson of Marion, La., and Grace Morres of Boise, Idaho; three sons, Tipton Holloway of Live Oak, Calif., Ted Holloway of Wellington, Nev., and Thomas Holloway of Vacaville, Calif.; daughter, Winona Holloway of Yerington, Nev.; eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Merritt L. Holloway.
A memorial was held in California Nov. 14, 2009.
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Another obituary was published by the Gridley Herald, California, 13 November 2009.
Sept. 18, 1915-Nov. 5, 2009
Winona Johnson Holloway, 94, died in Live Oak Calif.
She was born to well-known Wallowa County pioneers Thomas Grover and Zora Blanche Burgett Johnson, one of eight children.
Winona grew up in the valley, graduating from Wallowa High School in 1934 and E.O. Normal (now EOU) in La Grande in 1937.
After graduation from E.O. Normal, Winona taught school at Flora where she met Merritt L. Holloway. The couple were married in Lewiston, Idaho on May 23, 1938. Winona continued to teach at Arko, Troy, and Wallowa as the couple raised their three boys.
The family left Wallowa County for a ranch in Nevada in 1947 where Merritt took a job cowboying at Deep Springs College and Ranch. Winona developed an interest in anthropology and archaeology, and made valued connections with the Paiute descendants of the people who had lived in the region for a thousand years or more. The second of her autobiographical volumes, Moving Out, (published in1992) deals with the Nevada and Deep Springs period, from 1946 to 1950. She later studied the Navajo of the Rainbow Mountain area near Flagstaff and wrote about them in her third book.
The couple's daughter was born in 1955.
In 1957 Winona went back to school for her permanent teaching credential, graduating from California State University in Northridge in 1960.
Winona, like her mother, Zora, was a writer. Zora wrote "Wallowa Notes" for the Chieftain for many years, and Winona followed her example, publishing the first of three autobiographical volumes, Moving On in 1989. The volumes detail her family history in Wallowa in the early decades of the 20th century, up to 1947. The books are available in several local libraries in Wallowa County.
Winona's father, Grover was a Watkins product distributor, farmer, and auctioneer.
Winona is survived by a brother, Thomas K. Johnson of Wallowa; two sisters, Maybeth Wilson of Marion, La., and Grace Morres of Boise, Idaho; three sons, Tipton Holloway of Live Oak, Calif., Ted Holloway of Wellington, Nev., and Thomas Holloway of Vacaville, Calif.; daughter, Winona Holloway of Yerington, Nev.; eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Merritt L. Holloway.
A memorial was held in California Nov. 14, 2009.
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Another obituary was published by the Gridley Herald, California, 13 November 2009.
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1913–1971
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1917–2009
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1920–2013
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