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Verona (Calhoun) Johnston died Wednesday, November 30, 2004, at home in Worthington, Ohio.
Mrs. Johnston moved to Ohio at age 98 to live with her daughter, Julie Johnson and her
husband, both in their 80s. She was born August 6, 1890, in Indianola, Iowa. She was the
eighth of nine children born to Civil War veteran Joseph Calhoun and Emma Speer Calhoun.
Johnston attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where she studied Latin and
graduated in 1912. At the time, tuition was $54 per year. Johnston taught Latin in high
schools across Iowa. She married Harry Johnston, an Iowa physician who died in 1970. She
voted in every election since women earned the right in 1920, even casting an absentee
ballot in November. The secretary at her doctor's office said Johnston had the
thinnest file on record. Johnston's survivors include four children, 13 grandchildren
and 23 great-grandchildren.
For more information, please look her obit up on
CNN.com under "Oldest
American"