Obituaries: Katherine Myhand Johnson, 1967, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 23, 1967 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

Ward 7 Woman Dies In U. S. 84 Accident

A Ward 7 woman was killed instantly when her late model sedan smashed into a
tree 16 miles west off U. S. 84 Sunday night.  Dead is Mrs. Bill (Katherine)
Johnson, 41.

Mrs. Johnson was en route to the home to the home of her mother, Mrs. Ella
Quarles, Saline Lake.  It was raining when the crash occurred.

She and her husband live in the Hudson Community.

Mrs. Johnson worked at the paper mill in Hodge.

It took more than an hour to remove her body from the tangled wreckage.  It
was the first fatality on the Winn Parish strip on 84 since last spring and it
was the first fatality on Winn roads this year.

Funeral services for Mrs. Johnson were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the
New Hope Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery under the
direction of Southern Funeral Home.

Mrs. Johnson is also survived by her daughter, Mrs. Jean Howell, Paducah,
Kentucky, a grandson, two brothers, Henry Myhand, El Paso, and Billy Myhand,
Paducah.