Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameVenus Maxine “Benji” BARNES 150,362
Birth Date28 Sep 1917
Birth PlaceColorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado
Death Date30 Jun 1997 Age: 79
Death PlaceWallace, Shoshone County, Idaho
Burial PlaceOsburn, Shoshone County, Idaho, Days Cemetery
MemoSection 5, Row W, Plot 11
Spouses
Birth Date11 Mar 1913
Birth PlaceHolly, Prowers County, Colorado
Family ID5867
Marr Date24 Oct 1935
Marr PlacePueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado
Div Date19 Jul 1939
Div PlacePueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado
Birth Date28 Dec 1916
Birth PlaceEllis, Ellis County, Kansas
Death Date25 Jul 1983 Age: 66
Death PlaceWallace, Shoshone County, Idaho
Burial PlaceOsburn, Shoshone County, Idaho, Days Cemetery
MemoSection 5, Row W, Plot 11
OccupationCF&I, Job Puller In Cold Storage Plant
FatherCharles Thomas JOHNSON (1890-1982)
MotherGolda Marie RYAN (1896-1982)
Family ID301
Marr Date11 Sep 1939
Marr PlaceSuperior, Mineral County, Montana
Marr MemoMontana, Marriage Records, 1943-1988-1943-1956-Mineral-Min 1 - Min 2385
ChildrenRobert Dale (1936-2008)
Notes for Venus Maxine “Benji” BARNES
Nick named “Benji” or “Binnie” as in the May 1940 Pueblo Star-Journal group photograph.

Name also listed as Venise or Venese21

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Notes for Orvil Lee "Orv" (Spouse 2)
Orvil L. Johnson

Graveside service for Orvil L. Johnson, 66, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Day Cemetery in Osburn, Idaho, with the Wallace Funeral Chapel, Shoshone Funeral Services, in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Johnson died Monday at his home in Wallace.

The son of Charles and Goldie (Ryan) Johnson, he was born in Ellis, Kan., and came to Wallace in 1949.

Mr. Johnson had been a miner at the Star Mine in Burke, Idaho.

He married Venus Barnes of Colorado Springs, Colo., on Oct. 1, 1935, in New Mexico.

Survivors include his wife, at the Wallace home; one son, Robert Johnson of Wallace; two sisters, and three brothers.

On Ancestry posted by kljohns

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Research notes for Orvil Lee "Orv" (Spouse 2)
Census 1: 1920, Salina Saline Co, KS age 4. Orvillee.
Census 2: 1930, Pueblo, Pueblo Co, CO age 13, in school. Orville E.21
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