Leah Gail Johnson

Funeral services have been announced for Leah Gail Johnson, who died at around age 17. She disappeared on April 30, 1970, and was declared missing Nov. 20, 1970, before her remains were discovered on Sept. 17, 2013, in Foss Lake. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Creech Auditorium at Hammon.

Officiating will be Rev. Mona Bear Shield, and burial will conclude in the Bethel Indian Mennonite Cemetery in Hammon

There will be a traditional all night wake service, starting at 7 p.m. Thursday in Hammon Indian Community Hall.

Miss Johnson was born Aug. 15, 1952, to Theodore Clyde Johnson and Nellie White Skunk Johnson in Clinton. She would have been 61 years old.

Miss Johnson was raised in the Hammon area but had moved to Sayre with her parents. She was attending high school at Sayre and would have graduated with the 1970 graduating class.

She was an outstanding basketball player and was a competitive Native American Indian dancer and had traveled extensively competing.  She had earned her way to compete at the 1968 World’s Fair.

She was a member of the Bethel Indian Mennonite Church.

Survivors at the time of her disappearance included her parents, Clyde and Nellie Johnson (now deceased); four brothers, Darrell Johnson, Clyde Johnson Jr.,  (both now deceased), Christopher Johnson and Wendell Johnson, both living at Geary; two sisters , Glenda Marie Johnson (now deceased) and Eva Johnson Beach, living at Geary; and a maternal grandmother, Rena Dakota (now deceased).

Arrangements are under the direction of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.