1911
Eleanor
2010
Eleanor Johnson
January 31, 1911 — October 8, 2010
Eleanor Lincoln Johnson
Eleanor Lincoln Johnson, aged 99, passed away peacefully on October 8, 2010 at
Bickford of Overland Park, Kansas. She was a long time Fayetteville resident active in
both the town and university circles. She was born in Shanghai, China in 1911 to
Charles Fessenden Lincoln, a medical missionary, and Williette Eastham Lincoln. She
lived a youth that was full of travel and adventure; seeing and participating in many of
the 20th Century's most revolutionary moments. She danced on broadway, sculpted at
the 1939 World's Fair and was affiliated with Greenwich House in NYC. She was
working in Europe up until the outbreak of World War II. During the war she was an aid
in a Staten Island military hospital and throughout the war she served in other volunteer
positions.
Eleanor moved to Fayetteville after World War II when her husband, George Thomas
Johnson, returned to teach botany and bacteriology in his home state at the University
of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Eleanor was a generous donor to many, including Fayetteville
High School, and The University of Arkansas. She was especially fond of the university
marching band, track and field events, women's athletics, and the men's baseball team.
Eleanor actively supported her community for over fifty years. She was a den mother to
her special Boy Scout troop for many years. Chief among her accomplishments are
starting the local animal shelter, distributing food for commodity programs, helping start
the local Boy's Club of America and Indian Trail House, helping develop the current Girl
Scout camp in Northwest Arkansas. She supported the Meals-on-Wheels program, for
which she was a delivery driver for twenty years.
During the sixties, she taught classes on being inventive without having money at the
Free University at the U of Arkansas. She was a professional sculptor in her early life
and transitioned into knitting, fashion design, and loom weaving in her later artistic work.
Along with Dorothy Nichols, she started an artists' co-op on Dickson street during the
seventies.
Eleanor is survived by her two children Dr. Charles Lincoln Johnson of South Bend,
Indiana and Dr. Nancy Lee Richard of Overland Park, Kansas. She leaves behind nine
grandchildren and several extended relatives who remember her as a small woman with
a big heart. A memorial service for Eleanor is scheduled for Sunday November 7, 2010 at 1 pm
at the Fayetteville Botanical Gardens, 4703 Crossover Road, Fayetteville, AR 72764. Share a memory,
sign an online guestbook, or express your condolences at www.overlandparkchapel.com
(Arr.: D.W. Newcomer's Sons Overland Park Chapel, 8201 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS 66204.)
Eleanor Lincoln Johnson, aged 99, passed away peacefully on October 8, 2010 at
Bickford of Overland Park, Kansas. She was a long time Fayetteville resident active in
both the town and university circles. She was born in Shanghai, China in 1911 to
Charles Fessenden Lincoln, a medical missionary, and Williette Eastham Lincoln. She
lived a youth that was full of travel and adventure; seeing and participating in many of
the 20th Century's most revolutionary moments. She danced on broadway, sculpted at
the 1939 World's Fair and was affiliated with Greenwich House in NYC. She was
working in Europe up until the outbreak of World War II. During the war she was an aid
in a Staten Island military hospital and throughout the war she served in other volunteer
positions.
Eleanor moved to Fayetteville after World War II when her husband, George Thomas
Johnson, returned to teach botany and bacteriology in his home state at the University
of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Eleanor was a generous donor to many, including Fayetteville
High School, and The University of Arkansas. She was especially fond of the university
marching band, track and field events, women's athletics, and the men's baseball team.
Eleanor actively supported her community for over fifty years. She was a den mother to
her special Boy Scout troop for many years. Chief among her accomplishments are
starting the local animal shelter, distributing food for commodity programs, helping start
the local Boy's Club of America and Indian Trail House, helping develop the current Girl
Scout camp in Northwest Arkansas. She supported the Meals-on-Wheels program, for
which she was a delivery driver for twenty years.
During the sixties, she taught classes on being inventive without having money at the
Free University at the U of Arkansas. She was a professional sculptor in her early life
and transitioned into knitting, fashion design, and loom weaving in her later artistic work.
Along with Dorothy Nichols, she started an artists' co-op on Dickson street during the
seventies.
Eleanor is survived by her two children Dr. Charles Lincoln Johnson of South Bend,
Indiana and Dr. Nancy Lee Richard of Overland Park, Kansas. She leaves behind nine
grandchildren and several extended relatives who remember her as a small woman with
a big heart. A memorial service for Eleanor is scheduled for Sunday November 7, 2010 at 1 pm
at the Fayetteville Botanical Gardens, 4703 Crossover Road, Fayetteville, AR 72764. Share a memory,
sign an online guestbook, or express your condolences at www.overlandparkchapel.com
(Arr.: D.W. Newcomer's Sons Overland Park Chapel, 8201 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS 66204.)
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