Barbara Christensen Johnson (1943-2023) Warren High School class of 1960

 

1960 Dragon yearbook

Source:  Peterson ck Funeral Home

1967 Warren City Directory

• Christensen Henry (Thelma) clerk Pennsylvania Gas Company h100 Home Street

1983 Warren City Directory

• Christensen Henry & Thelma retired h100 Home Street

The popularity of Barbara as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at Thelma. 

 

Source:  Social Security  Administration

Thelma was a very popular name in the early decades of the 20th century.  She spent 40 years in the top 100 (1900-1939), 28 of them in the top 50.  (1903-1930).  She peaked at #25 in 1910.  After 1960, her popularity increasingly tanked, and she dropped off the chart in 1983,

Other class of 1960 obituaries (55): 

2023

Barbara Kofod Lucia.  (10/26)

David LeRoy Cohan.  (9/25)

Garry Hunter.  (7/26)

Roberta Rhoades VanOrd.  (7/13)

Rebecca Weaver McMillan.  (6/11)

Thomas Stilwell.  (6/9)

Dennis Strandburg.  (1/29)

Patricia Ann Briggs Orcutt.  (1/15)

2022

Sandra Shine Eldridge.  (12/15)

Nancy Temple Standley.  (12/10)

Bonnie Emerson Loebelenz.  (9/22)

Thomas Africa.  (8/15)

Nancy Frederickson Engstrom Nelson.  (7/26)

Robert August.  (1/26)

Blaine Bidwell.  (1/9)

2021
Roberta Sampson.  (11/14)

William Howard Clark.  (9/26)

Kay Sidon Buerkle (6/29)

Courtney Harriger.  (3/18)

2020
Joyce Hawley Brown.  (12/30)

Kay Knapp Greenawalt.  (12/24/)

Terrence Henry.  (12/7)

James August Cerra (11/2)

Thomas Fadale.  (8/18)
Robert Callahan.  (7/26)
Cynthia Ponsoll Agnew.  (7/16)
Jean Bonnel Camp  (1/24)

2019
Michael Madigan.  (10/15)
Richard White.  (9/13)
Rose Marie Conklin Brown.  (2/18)
Wrayburn Haynes Jr.  (2/13)

2018

Jerald Armstong.  (12/15)
Ellen Kenny Lindell.  (11/18)
Thomas Nasman.  (10/19)
John Hedman.  (10/9)
John Barr.  (6/14)
Arthur Saxton.  (2/9)

2017
Louis Musante.  (12/9)
George W. Yaegle, Jr.  (12/1)
Diana Lee Hagerman Smith. (6/5)
Edward Grosch.  (6/3)
Rita Fitzgerald Lindgren.  (5/25)
Judy Charles Lobdell.  (5/2)
James Johnson.  (3/6)
William Ritchie.  (2/21)

2016
Janice Carlson.  (5/9)
William Irwin.  (3/18)

2015
Patricia O'Neill.  (12/27)
David Hollingshead.  (11/18)
Marlene LeTrent Peterson.  (7/15)
John Marymount.  (3/24)
Kraig Werlin.  (2/1)

2014
Mary Kays Frederick.  (12/9)

Nancy Goodwill Bonavita.  (3/9)
Mary Madeleine Graham Helmbrecht Haslett.  (1/6)