THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Thursday, June 6, 1957

Mrs. Mary Ketus Johnston, widow of the late J. B. Johnston, died about 10:30 Sunday evening in the Flagler Clinic and Hospital following an illness of several weeks duration.

Mrs. Johnston was born in San Mateo on June 19, 1864 and her parents moved to Cartersville when she was a small child. She and her husband moved to Flagler County in 1895 and lived on the Johnston Farm on Highway l00, five miles west of Bunnell. Following her husband’s death she moved to Bunnell and has resided at 305 North Church St. She was a member of the First Methodist Church of Bunnell.

Funeral services were held at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the First Methodist Church of Bunnell, With Rev. L. E. Watkins officiating. Interment was in the Pellicer Creek Cemetery.

Mrs. Johnston is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Kate Bankston, Mrs. Letty Copeland, and Mrs. Mattie Pellicer of Bunnell; and Mrs. Mollie Spencer of Orlando; two sons, Ernest W. Johnston, Sr., and Isham L. Johnston both of Bunnell; one sister, Mrs. Minnie Morrison of Hastings. Also surviving are 21 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren.

Active pallbearers were her grandsons, W. W. Deen, Curtis Deen, Hubert Pellicer, C. J. Spencer, Donald Moore, and Danny Johnston. 

Honorary pallbearers also were her grandsons; A. B. Johnston, Carlton Johnston, Walton Johnston. H. T. Cook, Z. G. Holland, LeRoy Pellicer, Milton Pellicer, Claude Pellicer, J. B. Pellicer, Herschel Pellicer, Eugene Hatcher, Jeff and Robert Bertha.