Services for Ellen Felice Johnson "Mimi" Kane of Ridgefield, Conn., are Sept. 9 at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Brookhaven. Jowdy Kane Funeral Home in Danbury, Conn., is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Kane, 102, died Aug. 28, 2004, at her residence. She was born in Brookhaven on March 16, 1902, to Dr. J.H. Johnson and Katherine McGrath Johnson.
Mrs. Kane traveled to New York, N.Y., where she became the companion for a widowed family friend. She enjoyed being chauffeured to and from the cultural offerings of Broadway and Carnegie Hall. While there, she met and married a young journalist, Sherwin Kane. Mrs. Kane enjoyed equity investing, playing piano, entertaining friends, and car traveling around the country with her husband and visiting a North Carolina farm that is now a National Historical Site on Mrs. Kane's side of the family.
Preceding her in death were her parents and her husband.
Survivors are her two sons, Sherwin and Stephen Kane, both of Ashland, Ore.; her five grandchildren; her five great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Phyllis Spearman and Joan Peyton of Brookhaven, and Jere Clark of Hattiesburg.
Memorials may be made to Johnson Farm Project, Education Foundation of Henderson County Public Schools, 414 Fourth Ave. West, Hendersonville, NC 28739.
(Obituary, as published in the Daily Leader, Brookhaven, MS, 09/03/2004)
Mrs. Kane, 102, died Aug. 28, 2004, at her residence. She was born in Brookhaven on March 16, 1902, to Dr. J.H. Johnson and Katherine McGrath Johnson.
Mrs. Kane traveled to New York, N.Y., where she became the companion for a widowed family friend. She enjoyed being chauffeured to and from the cultural offerings of Broadway and Carnegie Hall. While there, she met and married a young journalist, Sherwin Kane. Mrs. Kane enjoyed equity investing, playing piano, entertaining friends, and car traveling around the country with her husband and visiting a North Carolina farm that is now a National Historical Site on Mrs. Kane's side of the family.
Preceding her in death were her parents and her husband.
Survivors are her two sons, Sherwin and Stephen Kane, both of Ashland, Ore.; her five grandchildren; her five great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Phyllis Spearman and Joan Peyton of Brookhaven, and Jere Clark of Hattiesburg.
Memorials may be made to Johnson Farm Project, Education Foundation of Henderson County Public Schools, 414 Fourth Ave. West, Hendersonville, NC 28739.
(Obituary, as published in the Daily Leader, Brookhaven, MS, 09/03/2004)
Services for Ellen Felice Johnson "Mimi" Kane of Ridgefield, Conn., are Sept. 9 at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Brookhaven. Jowdy Kane Funeral Home in Danbury, Conn., is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Kane, 102, died Aug. 28, 2004, at her residence. She was born in Brookhaven on March 16, 1902, to Dr. J.H. Johnson and Katherine McGrath Johnson.
Mrs. Kane traveled to New York, N.Y., where she became the companion for a widowed family friend. She enjoyed being chauffeured to and from the cultural offerings of Broadway and Carnegie Hall. While there, she met and married a young journalist, Sherwin Kane. Mrs. Kane enjoyed equity investing, playing piano, entertaining friends, and car traveling around the country with her husband and visiting a North Carolina farm that is now a National Historical Site on Mrs. Kane's side of the family.
Preceding her in death were her parents and her husband.
Survivors are her two sons, Sherwin and Stephen Kane, both of Ashland, Ore.; her five grandchildren; her five great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Phyllis Spearman and Joan Peyton of Brookhaven, and Jere Clark of Hattiesburg.
Memorials may be made to Johnson Farm Project, Education Foundation of Henderson County Public Schools, 414 Fourth Ave. West, Hendersonville, NC 28739.
(Obituary, as published in the Daily Leader, Brookhaven, MS, 09/03/2004)
Mrs. Kane, 102, died Aug. 28, 2004, at her residence. She was born in Brookhaven on March 16, 1902, to Dr. J.H. Johnson and Katherine McGrath Johnson.
Mrs. Kane traveled to New York, N.Y., where she became the companion for a widowed family friend. She enjoyed being chauffeured to and from the cultural offerings of Broadway and Carnegie Hall. While there, she met and married a young journalist, Sherwin Kane. Mrs. Kane enjoyed equity investing, playing piano, entertaining friends, and car traveling around the country with her husband and visiting a North Carolina farm that is now a National Historical Site on Mrs. Kane's side of the family.
Preceding her in death were her parents and her husband.
Survivors are her two sons, Sherwin and Stephen Kane, both of Ashland, Ore.; her five grandchildren; her five great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Phyllis Spearman and Joan Peyton of Brookhaven, and Jere Clark of Hattiesburg.
Memorials may be made to Johnson Farm Project, Education Foundation of Henderson County Public Schools, 414 Fourth Ave. West, Hendersonville, NC 28739.
(Obituary, as published in the Daily Leader, Brookhaven, MS, 09/03/2004)
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