Mrs. Kate Johnstone, Funeral Rites Friday
Mrs. Katherine Richanna Byrn Johnstone, 87, a resident of this community since 1923, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hillard Booth in Brevard, Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock after an illness of several months. Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the greveside in St Paul's in the Valley cemetery. The Rev. Harry Perry, rector of St. Phillip's Episcopal church, conducted the service.
Mrs. Johnstone was anative of San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of Citizen and Agnes Clark Byrn. She was educated in private schools. She was twice married, first to Hamlin Beverly Delling, from which union one daughter, Mrs. Booth, survives. Her second marriage was to Dr. Joseph Johnstone, of Edinburgh, Scotland, supervising British consul for Central America, located in Nicaragua.
Surviving in addition to their daugher, are two grandchildren, Mrs. J. B. Bennett, of Rancocas, n. H. and Delling Booth, of Columbia, S. C.; three great-grandchildren, Patricia and Chandler Bennett, of Rancoca, and Elizabeth Byrn Booth, of Columbia.
Active pallbearers were A. E. york, Dwight Moffitt, Rufus Orr, Randall Lankford, Garland Sledge and Ashe MacFie. Honarary pallbearers were members of the local Masonic lodge. Moore and Trantham funeral directors were in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Kate Johnstone, Funeral Rites Friday
Mrs. Katherine Richanna Byrn Johnstone, 87, a resident of this community since 1923, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hillard Booth in Brevard, Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock after an illness of several months. Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the greveside in St Paul's in the Valley cemetery. The Rev. Harry Perry, rector of St. Phillip's Episcopal church, conducted the service.
Mrs. Johnstone was anative of San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of Citizen and Agnes Clark Byrn. She was educated in private schools. She was twice married, first to Hamlin Beverly Delling, from which union one daughter, Mrs. Booth, survives. Her second marriage was to Dr. Joseph Johnstone, of Edinburgh, Scotland, supervising British consul for Central America, located in Nicaragua.
Surviving in addition to their daugher, are two grandchildren, Mrs. J. B. Bennett, of Rancocas, n. H. and Delling Booth, of Columbia, S. C.; three great-grandchildren, Patricia and Chandler Bennett, of Rancoca, and Elizabeth Byrn Booth, of Columbia.
Active pallbearers were A. E. york, Dwight Moffitt, Rufus Orr, Randall Lankford, Garland Sledge and Ashe MacFie. Honarary pallbearers were members of the local Masonic lodge. Moore and Trantham funeral directors were in charge of arrangements.
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