Ophelia Ann Matley Johnson Wilkening died peacefully on 25 July 2016 aged 91 years.
She was born Ophelia Ann Matley in San Antonio, Texas; the youngest daughter of Ophelia Marie de la Garza and Jonathan Milme Matley of Galveston.
In the early 1950's Ann was a popular teacher at All Saints Catholic School in Houston Heights. She was fond of the Dominican Sisters who ran the school. Ann was fascinated by history and the science and art of government; her civics classes inspired an unusual number of her students to later study law.
She studied journalism and won an award for it at University of Houston in the late 1950's.
In later life Ann worked as a library assistant first at Heights Branch Public Library; then until retirement at the Garden Oaks Branch.
She liked books, cats, and solitude; was a life-long Democrat, volunteering as an election worker / poll watcher for many years in her Houston precinct.
Ann was the widow first of Adrian Warren Johnson of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, who was KIA in the Korean War in 1950; afterward, of Jack Gordon Wilkening of Burton, Texas, who died in 1993.
Ann is survived by one child of each marriage: Mrs. Michael ("Raven") Wenner (neé Holly Adrianne Johnson) of Cheshire, UK; and Mrs Seraphima ("Sera") Ilyana Ioanna Shagoury (neé Ivy Jean Wilkening) of Irving, Texas; and by grandchildren Abraham Moses Shagoury and Sophia Maria Shagoury of North Fort Meyers, Florida.
Ann is also survived by her beloved sister-in-law Shirley Ann Wilkening Hartman, and brother-in-law Edward Earl Wilkening of Pasadena, Texas.
Memorial Mass at Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, 7809 Shadyvilla Lane, Houston, TX 77055 at 2:00 p.m. August 17th, 2016. Private interment at Garden of Gethsemane, Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, TX.
Published in Houston Chronicle from July 31 to Aug. 7 2016
She was born Ophelia Ann Matley in San Antonio, Texas; the youngest daughter of Ophelia Marie de la Garza and Jonathan Milme Matley of Galveston.
In the early 1950's Ann was a popular teacher at All Saints Catholic School in Houston Heights. She was fond of the Dominican Sisters who ran the school. Ann was fascinated by history and the science and art of government; her civics classes inspired an unusual number of her students to later study law.
She studied journalism and won an award for it at University of Houston in the late 1950's.
In later life Ann worked as a library assistant first at Heights Branch Public Library; then until retirement at the Garden Oaks Branch.
She liked books, cats, and solitude; was a life-long Democrat, volunteering as an election worker / poll watcher for many years in her Houston precinct.
Ann was the widow first of Adrian Warren Johnson of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, who was KIA in the Korean War in 1950; afterward, of Jack Gordon Wilkening of Burton, Texas, who died in 1993.
Ann is survived by one child of each marriage: Mrs. Michael ("Raven") Wenner (neé Holly Adrianne Johnson) of Cheshire, UK; and Mrs Seraphima ("Sera") Ilyana Ioanna Shagoury (neé Ivy Jean Wilkening) of Irving, Texas; and by grandchildren Abraham Moses Shagoury and Sophia Maria Shagoury of North Fort Meyers, Florida.
Ann is also survived by her beloved sister-in-law Shirley Ann Wilkening Hartman, and brother-in-law Edward Earl Wilkening of Pasadena, Texas.
Memorial Mass at Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, 7809 Shadyvilla Lane, Houston, TX 77055 at 2:00 p.m. August 17th, 2016. Private interment at Garden of Gethsemane, Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, TX.
Published in Houston Chronicle from July 31 to Aug. 7 2016
Ophelia Ann Matley Johnson Wilkening died peacefully on 25 July 2016 aged 91 years.
She was born Ophelia Ann Matley in San Antonio, Texas; the youngest daughter of Ophelia Marie de la Garza and Jonathan Milme Matley of Galveston.
In the early 1950's Ann was a popular teacher at All Saints Catholic School in Houston Heights. She was fond of the Dominican Sisters who ran the school. Ann was fascinated by history and the science and art of government; her civics classes inspired an unusual number of her students to later study law.
She studied journalism and won an award for it at University of Houston in the late 1950's.
In later life Ann worked as a library assistant first at Heights Branch Public Library; then until retirement at the Garden Oaks Branch.
She liked books, cats, and solitude; was a life-long Democrat, volunteering as an election worker / poll watcher for many years in her Houston precinct.
Ann was the widow first of Adrian Warren Johnson of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, who was KIA in the Korean War in 1950; afterward, of Jack Gordon Wilkening of Burton, Texas, who died in 1993.
Ann is survived by one child of each marriage: Mrs. Michael ("Raven") Wenner (neé Holly Adrianne Johnson) of Cheshire, UK; and Mrs Seraphima ("Sera") Ilyana Ioanna Shagoury (neé Ivy Jean Wilkening) of Irving, Texas; and by grandchildren Abraham Moses Shagoury and Sophia Maria Shagoury of North Fort Meyers, Florida.
Ann is also survived by her beloved sister-in-law Shirley Ann Wilkening Hartman, and brother-in-law Edward Earl Wilkening of Pasadena, Texas.
Memorial Mass at Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, 7809 Shadyvilla Lane, Houston, TX 77055 at 2:00 p.m. August 17th, 2016. Private interment at Garden of Gethsemane, Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, TX.
Published in Houston Chronicle from July 31 to Aug. 7 2016
She was born Ophelia Ann Matley in San Antonio, Texas; the youngest daughter of Ophelia Marie de la Garza and Jonathan Milme Matley of Galveston.
In the early 1950's Ann was a popular teacher at All Saints Catholic School in Houston Heights. She was fond of the Dominican Sisters who ran the school. Ann was fascinated by history and the science and art of government; her civics classes inspired an unusual number of her students to later study law.
She studied journalism and won an award for it at University of Houston in the late 1950's.
In later life Ann worked as a library assistant first at Heights Branch Public Library; then until retirement at the Garden Oaks Branch.
She liked books, cats, and solitude; was a life-long Democrat, volunteering as an election worker / poll watcher for many years in her Houston precinct.
Ann was the widow first of Adrian Warren Johnson of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, who was KIA in the Korean War in 1950; afterward, of Jack Gordon Wilkening of Burton, Texas, who died in 1993.
Ann is survived by one child of each marriage: Mrs. Michael ("Raven") Wenner (neé Holly Adrianne Johnson) of Cheshire, UK; and Mrs Seraphima ("Sera") Ilyana Ioanna Shagoury (neé Ivy Jean Wilkening) of Irving, Texas; and by grandchildren Abraham Moses Shagoury and Sophia Maria Shagoury of North Fort Meyers, Florida.
Ann is also survived by her beloved sister-in-law Shirley Ann Wilkening Hartman, and brother-in-law Edward Earl Wilkening of Pasadena, Texas.
Memorial Mass at Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham, 7809 Shadyvilla Lane, Houston, TX 77055 at 2:00 p.m. August 17th, 2016. Private interment at Garden of Gethsemane, Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, TX.
Published in Houston Chronicle from July 31 to Aug. 7 2016
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