Rowland L. Johnston d. 22 September 1939

ROWLAND JOHNSTON FUNERAL SET FOR 2 P.M. TOMORROW

Services for Former Congressman Who Died at 69, Will Be Under Masonic Auspices

Funeral services for Rowland L. Johnston, former Congressman and an Assistant Circuit Attorney under Howard Sidener, will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow from the Robert J. Armbruster mortuary, Clayton road and Concordia lane, under Masonic auspices, followed by cremation.

Mr. Johnston, 69 years old, died Friday at his home in Rolla, Mo., after a long illness. He was born in Louisiana, Mo., and practiced law in St. Louis County when a young man. Following a term in the State Legislature, he served three terms as Prosecuting Attorney of St. Louis County, prosecuting the “Lord Barrington” murder case.

He later was acting Mayor of Waynesville, Mo., and in 1921 was appointed an Assistant Circuit Attorney. Moving to Rolla in 1926, Mr. Johnston was elected to Congress from the old Sixteenth District two years later. He was a member of Congress two years and in 1930 was a Republican congressional nominee at large. His wife and two sons survive.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis, Missouri

24 September 1939

Page 21

Mary J. Doyle Grempcznski 1857-1939

Mary J. Doyle Grempczynski, daughter of Thomas, born November 4, 1857, married Joseph N. Grempczynski and spent all her married life in the High Point neighborhood in Pulaski County where she died June 24, 1939, and where her son, Thomas, still lives. Her daughter, Amanda, wife of Arch Branson lives in Dixon and the remaining son, John, in St. Louis. Burial at Eagan Cemetery.

*Eagan Cemetery is now known as Saint Theresa Cemetery

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