WALTER JOHNSON’S MOTHER DIES AT 100
Olney, MD.- The mother of the late Walter (Big Train) Johnson, famed pitcher for the Washington Senators, is dead. Minnie O. (Perry) Johnson died Sunday in a nursing home. She was 100.
Born in Wayne County, Ind., Mrs. Johnson lived on farms in the Midwest and the family was operating one in Kansas when Walter went to Washington.
One of her favorite stories was how as a child she had taken care of the guns of Jesse and Frank James when the notorious robbers were lodged overnight at her farm home in Dixon, Missouri
Born 1867-Died December 10, 1967
(Remainder of text of this obituary is missing. The original obituary was printed December 14, 1967 in the Dixon Pilot and was also printed in the Springfield Daily News)
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