JOHNSON, Phyllis Dorothy

1899 - 1968

As Phyllis Dorothy Cobbald, she was born at Bury St Edmund's, Suffolk on 12 October 1899, and baptised at Akenham near Ipswich on 11 April 1900, second youngest of the eleven surviving of the twelve children of Arthur Henry Cobbald (1850-25 July 1934), a farmer, and his wife Eliza née Twinn (31 December 1861-3 June 1951), who married at Linton, Cambridgeshire in 1879. In 1911, Phyllis was an 11-year-old, living at Eldo Farm, Bury St Edmund's with her parents, 60-year-old Arthur and 51-year-old Eliza, with four of her siblings, Betty 23, Ada 16 and Arthur 13 all born Akenham and Martin 6 who was born Bury St Edmund's, all in Suffolk. Phyllis married at Acton Parish Church, Sudbury, Suffolk on 17 November 1926, Albert Estcourt Johnson (14 September 1895-3 April 1988), an engineering director, and in 1939, they were living at 'Fairways', 216 Rushmere Road, Ipswich. A member of the Ipswich Art Club 1954-1967 and exhibited from Fairways, 216 Rushmere Road, Ipswich in 1954, two watercolours 'Flower Piece' and 'Looking up the River' and two flower miniatures, in 1955 an oil 'Flower Study', two miniatures and a watercolour 'Flower Study' and in 1956 an oil 'Flower Study' two miniatures and a watercolour 'Amaryllis Belladonna' and was a regular exhibitor. In 1960 she had on show three watercolours, 'Peonies', 'Iris Stylosa' and 'Leaves and Lichen' and in 1963 two oils, 'Rendlesham, Winter' and 'Roses' and last exhibited in 1967, an oil 'Killarney'. Phyllis Dorothy Johnson died at her home at 216 Rushmere Road, Ipswich on 18 March 1968.

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