1. | Living (son of David Bruce Johnson and Living). Notes: Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
2. | David Bruce Johnson was born on 20 Feb 1937 in Patoka, Gibson Co, Indiana; died on 20 Dec 2015 in Palm Desert, Riverside Co, California. Notes: D. Bruce Johnson was born February 20, 1937 in Princeton, Indiana and passed away December 20, 2015 at his home in Del Webb Sun City, Palm Desert, California. He had waged a courageous battle with brain cancer. He met his wife Jill while coaching in Colorado and they married in 1964. He is survived by his wife Jill and their two children, son Josh (and daughter in law Diane DePreta) and daughter Gigi as well as his four grandchildren Jason, Tyler, Kylie and Alexa. Bruce was a great husband, father, grandfather and loved and helped everyone. He is also survived by his brother Dick and wife Barbara Johnson and sister Judy and husband Charles Miser of Princeton, Indiana. He was preceded in death by his mother and father, Margaret and Ellis Johnson; three sisters, Kathleen, Martha and Jeri. Mr. Johnson was an outstanding athlete growing up in Indiana. He attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs on a basketball scholarship. He was drafted after college and spent two years the military. He returned to a basketball and baseball coaching career for four years. He then joined Owens Illinois Conglomerate, Glass Division in 1967 working in a variety of locations and eventually settled in Riverside in 1976 where he retired after his 30 year career in 1997. He was a member of the Brockton First Methodist Church. Bruce was a 32nd Degree Mason as well as a Shriner and member of the Scottish Rite and an avid supporter of Saint Jude Children's Hospital from which he was awarded a 50 year anniversary for his membership. Memorial Service to be held Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 12:00 noon at the Brockton First Methodist Church, reception to follow. David married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
3. | Living (daughter of Orville Dale Cooley and Alice Mildred Skinner). Notes:
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6. | Orville Dale Cooley was born on 5 Apr 1903 in Plainview, Pierce Co, Nebraska (son of Robert Berton Cooley and Carrie Louella Miller); died on 12 May 1994 in Riverside, Riverside Co, California; was buried on 17 May 1994 in Pershing Memorial Cemetery, Limon, Lincoln Co, Colorado. Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: Orville Dale Cooley was born April 5, 1903 in a small house in Plainview, Nebraska. He started school at McLean, Nebraska primarily because his father, Robert Berton, had a job teaching there. It was the year Halley's Comet was visible (1910) and he went outside each evening to see it. He recalls his mother (Carrie Louella Miller) telling him he would see it again "...but I would be an old man when I did. I did see the comet return in 1986 but I didn't feel nearly as old as my mother said I would!" He went to Colorado with his parents March 1, 1910. They had taken a homestead nine miles northwest of Flagler. They had tried to farm but the weather was bad 1910-1911 so both parents were employed as rural teachers in schools north of Flagler. R.B. taught at the Huntley School and Lou taught at the Patten School. In 1911 Dale's father (R.B. or "Bert") started a newspaper in Otis, Colorado, "The Otis Independent". In 1914 with the untimely death of his father's twin brother, Herbert Merton ("Mert") who ran a newspaper in Crofton, Nebraska, Bert sold the Otis Independent and the family moved to Crofton to continue the running Mert's business. Bert eventually could not tolerate the climate in eastern Nebraska, having severe allergies, so in November 1916 the family repurchased the Otis Independent and once again took up residence in that tiny Washington County town. Dale was employed in his father's newspaper but business "was something less than sensational" so, as eldest child in the family, he worked other jobs around the town. He was a cream tester, a soda jerk in more than one drug store, a harvester (pitching wheat to a threshing machine), and a railroad extra on a gang consisting of two Native Americans, 71 Mexican nationals and an Italian boss. Later he got a job in a clothing store where he "something of the cleaning and pressing business, aside from waiting on trade." With the help of a Methodist minister Dale obtained a scholarship to the University of Denver and started school in the fall semester of 1923. While still attending DU he married Mildred Skinner whose father, L.E. Skinner, operated a general merchandise store in Otis. They had gone to school together but Dale says they were not childhood sweethearts. They were married for almost 68 years. Dale and Mildred had two children, Robert Leonard, born 25 Jan 1933 in Otis, Colorado, and Jill Irene, born 17 Jul 1935 in Akron, Colorado. Dale and his cousin Ronald D. Cooley owned and operated The Limon Leader from 15 Feb 1937 through 1 Jun 1972. Dale was very active in state press affairs. He was a member of the board of directors of the Colorado Press Association for several terms and then served as vice president in 1960 and president of the organization in 1961. Also, he was a life member of the Denver Press Club. He was active in Republican politics serving as county chairman for two terms and as a precinct committeeman and delegate to state conventions numerous times. He was one of the founders of the Lincoln County Colorado Historical Society serving as a co-editor of a county history, "Where the Wagons Rolled". Dale was a member of the AF and AM Masonic Lincoln Lodge #146 in Limon, Colo; a 50-year member of Kappa Sigma social fraternity; a member of Sigma Delta Chi professional journalist fraternity. He was a member of the Limon board of education for two terms during which time it was instrumental in acquiring 15 acres of land upon which school buildings and athletic facilities now stand. Dale was active in the organization of the Limon Chamber of Commerce in 1946 and he was a member of the Limon Town Board for two terms. Orville married Alice Mildred Skinner on 11 Jul 1926 in Otis, Washington Co, Colorado. Alice (daughter of Leonard E Skinner and Ethel Campbell Powell) was born on 26 Mar 1905 in Clarence, Shelby Co, Missouri; died on 28 Oct 1996 in Riverside, Riverside Co, California; was buried on 1 Nov 1996 in Pershing Memorial Cemetery, Limon, Lincoln Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
7. | Alice Mildred Skinner was born on 26 Mar 1905 in Clarence, Shelby Co, Missouri (daughter of Leonard E Skinner and Ethel Campbell Powell); died on 28 Oct 1996 in Riverside, Riverside Co, California; was buried on 1 Nov 1996 in Pershing Memorial Cemetery, Limon, Lincoln Co, Colorado. Notes: Alice Mildred Skinner was born 26 Mar 1905 in Clarence, Shelby County. Missouri to Leonard and Ethel Skinner. She started school there but in 1916 the family moved to Lafayette, Colorado and then a year later to Otis, Colorado. Mildred finished high school in Otis, graduating in 1923. In the fall of 1923 Mildred entered Colorado Teacher's College (now the University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colo. She majored in education and in two years received a Life Certificate to teach. She married Orville Dale Cooley on 11 July 1926. They had attended high school together but they had never dated until after graduation. The marriage lasted 68 years. The started her teaching career in Haxtun, Colo., in the fall of 1926 keeping her marriage secret because women teachers were not allowed to be married and teach in the Haxtun school system. Meantime, her husband, Dale, attended Denver University in pursuit of a journalism degree. In 1927 Dale and Mildred returned to Otis where they both taught in Otis schools for the next six years. They had two children, Robert Leonard born at Otis on 25 Jan 1933 and Jill Irene born in Akron, Colo., 17 Jul 1935. On 15 Feb 1937 the family moved to Limon, Colo., where he and his cousin, Ronald Cooley, assumed operation of the Limon Leader newspaper. Mildred became bookkeeper for the newspaper and she also sold advertising and was Social Editor. In 1941 she was one of the first organizers of the Colorado Press Women and served in 1943 as the state treasurer. Mildred belonged to the Mayflower Order of the Eastern Star, the Limon Women's Golf Club, the Thursday Bridge Club, the Colorado Education Association, the National Education Association (serving as Colorado's representative for improving public relations). In the fall of 1953 Mildred started her second career in teaching. At 48 years of age she returned to the Limon Public Schools. She also attended evening and summer school and in 1962 attained her A.B. degree at the age of 57. She continued to teach in the Limon schools until she retired at the age of 66. She was also an amateur artist beginning this pursuit in her 70's. For several years she and her sister, Irene, cared for their ailing parents in Limon and for the last several years of Dale's life (whose health had seriously deteriorated) she was a constant caretaker and companion where they lived first in Colorado Springs, Colo, then in Riverside, Calif.
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Notes: Robert Berton Cooley (Bert) and his twin brother, Herbert Merton (Mert), were born 15 Oct 1875 to Robert Reed Cooley (1840-1917) and Stella Alfresine Owen (1850-1920) in McGregor, Iowa "right on the banks of the Mississippi River" as my Grandpa Bert Cooley told me. Robert married Carrie Louella Miller on 3 Jan 1903 in Plainview, Pierce Co, Nebraska. Carrie (daughter of Samuel Jasper Miller and Mary Ellen Nickerson) was born on 27 May 1883 in Beaman, Grundy Co, Iowa; died on 10 Aug 1973 in Akron, Washington Co, Colorado; was buried on 13 Aug 1973 in Otis Cemetery, Washington Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
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Notes: Carrie Louella Miller was born 27 May 1883 in Beaman, Grundy County, Iowa, thedaughter of Samuel Jasper Miller and Mary Ellen Nickerson. Carrie was the fifth of nine children: (i) Child (1874-1874), (ii) Odes Bert (1875-1943), (iii) Frank Gree(1878-1958), (iv) Walter Vivian (1880-1961), (v) Carrie Louella (1883-1973), (vi) Elvira Ann (1885-1912), (vii) Emma Frances (1889-1945), (viii) Robert Nickerson (1893-1958), (ix) Letta May (1896-1986). Notes: Married:
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14. | Leonard E Skinner was born on 29 Jun 1875 in Clarence, Shelby Co, Missouri (son of Living and Living); died about 1952; was buried about 1952 in Pershing Memorial Cemetery, Limon, Lincoln Co, Colorado. Notes: Leonard was a Railroad Agent and Operater for the CB&Q Railroad. Leonard married Ethel Campbell Powell on 15 Jun 1904 in Bevier, Macon Co, Missouri. Ethel was born about 1880; died about 1975 in Colorado; was buried about 1975 in Pershing Memorial Cemetery, Limon, Lincoln Co, Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
15. | Ethel Campbell Powell was born about 1880; died about 1975 in Colorado; was buried about 1975 in Pershing Memorial Cemetery, Limon, Lincoln Co, Colorado. Notes: Married:
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