Myrtle Idolia (Johnson) Sheehy (1885 - 1966)

Born 10 Feb 1885 in Searsboro town, Sugar Creek Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, United States

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Died 13 Sep 1966 at age 81 in Montezuma, Sugar Creek Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, United States

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Montezuma Republican September 22, 1966

Nettie DeHoedt, 70, wife of Dorsey DeHoedt, died at their rural Montezuma home at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept 13. Interment was in West Liberty Cemetery.

The daughter of George M. and Emma Watson Johnson, she was born near Searsboro on March 22, 1896. She attended Searsboro High School and Iowa State Teachers College. For nine years she taught in the rural schools of Poweshiek and Mahaska counties.

On March 20, 1926, she married Dorsey DeHoedt and to this union four sons were born, Robert, Scott, and Wayne of Barnes City, and Lee of Searsboro.

She is survived by her husband and sons; eight grandchildren; one sister, Edna Gable of Ladysmith, Wisc.; four brothers, Fred, Albert, and George of Searsboro, and Harry of Grinnell; and several nieces and nephews.

Preceding her in death were her parents, four brothers and three sisters.

    Family links:   Parents:   George Moorman Johnson (1856 - 1942)   Emma Ann Watson Johnson (1862 - 1926)    Spouse:   Dorsey A. De Hoedt (1898 - 1967)    Children:   Robert Johnson De Hoedt (1927 - 2010)*   Lee Edward De Hoedt (1934 - 1986)*    Siblings:   Edgar Paul Johnson (1883 - 1961)*   Myrtle Johnson Sheehy (1885 - 1932)*   Addie B. Johnson (1886 - 1888)*   Alpha Alice Johnson Fleener (1887 - 1965)*   Fred Monroe Johnson (1890 - 1979)*   Albert Lester Johnson (1892 - 1985)*   Harry Lewis Johnson (1893 - 1977)*   Nettie I. Johnson De Hoedt (1896 - 1966)   Jesse L. Johnson (1898 - 1900)*   Edna M Johnson Gable (1901 - 1974)*   George Emory Johnson (1904 - 1988)*

Sources

• United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9LX-34M : 20 January 2015), Myrtle I Johnson in household of George Johnson, Sugar Creek Township Searsboro town, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States; citing sheet 11B, family 241, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,457.

Find A Grave Index," database, Myrtle Johnson Sheehy, 1932; Burial, Searsboro, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States of America, Searsboro Cemetery; citing record ID 30716330, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com

United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG9H-FFN : 29 October 2015), Myrtle I Sheehy in household of John Sheehy, Sugar Creek, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 125, sheet 7B, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,374,434.

"Iowa State Census, 1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQ7-QY5Y : 23 August 2016), Myrtle Sheehy in household of John Sheehy, Malcom, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States; citing Iowa State Historical Department, Des Moines; FHL microfilm 1,429,535.

"United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMVR-X6X : 8 December 2015), Myrtle I Sheehy in entry for John Sheehy, 1930.