Anna Blanche (Hopkins) Johnson

Obituary

Class of 1905

March 26, 1885 – Nov. 17, 1980

Anna Blanche (Hopkins) Johnson

Graveside services for Anna Blanche (Hopkins) Johnson, 95, of 1415 W. Fort St., who died Sunday in a Boise hospital, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in Morris Hill Cemetery by the Rev. E.R. Gallagher of All Saints Episcopal Church, under the direction of Gibson Funeral Home.

She was born March 26, 1885, in Plymouth, Ohio, to Francis and Josephine Hopkins. In 1890, she moved with her family to Weiser, where she was reared and educated, graduating from Weiser High School in 1905. She attended Seattle Business College. She worked in the bookkeeping department of The Bon Marche. In 1910, she moved to Vale, Ore., where she worked as a bookkeeper for Vale Forwarding Co. She married Caleb Todd Coulter in April 1912, in Vale. He died in 1953. She married Bradford Johnson in 1958. They lived in Star until his death in 1966, when she moved to Boise.

Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Bert Miller of Boise; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Jean Johnson Marefield of Ukiah, Calif.; a niece and a nephew. She was preceded in death by a sister.

From The Idaho Statesman – Nov 19, 1980 – Page 16