430. EDNA MAY⁶ JOHNSTON (LUTHER OTTO⁵, JAMES GREGORY⁴, JAMES FRANKLIN³, GEORGE GREGORY ("G.G." OR "GREG")², LEWIS¹) (#1569) was born May 18, 1908. EDNA died in Castroville, Medina County, Texas, on May 20, 1993.  Her body was interred at San Jose Burial Park in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.

She married twice.  She first married ERIN MACON DELAVAN in Bell County, Texas,  November 27, 1929. (ERIN M. DELAVAN is #1570.) ERIN was born on February 29, 1904. ERIN died December 31, 1951,  at 47 years of age.

Note: Erin Macon Delavan, Sr. died "doing what he loved to do - dancing."  Erin and Edna May were at a New Year's Eve (12/31/1951) dance at a place called "Rural Murry's," at Medina Lake, about 16 miles from Castroville, when he, at the age of 47, had a heart attack.  He was pronounced dead at the nearest hospital, on 1/1/1952.  He is buried at San Jose Burial Park, in San Antonio. 

Edna May later married a local dentist, Dr. Knopp.   He also died about 1959, leaving her a widow for the second time.  Edna May Johnston Delavan Knopp died in Castroville, May 20, 1993, at the age of 85.  She is buried at San Jose Burial Park, in San Antonio.

EDNA MAY JOHNSTON and ERIN M. DELAVAN had the following family:

555 i. PATSY JO⁷ DELAVAN (#1571) was born October 29, 1930.

556 ii. ERIN MACON DELAVAN, Jr. (#1573) was born September 7, 1932. He married MARLENE MCKENZIE on August 23, 1952. (MARLENE MCKENZIE is #1574.) He died in Castroville, Medina County, Texas, on December 21, 1995 and is buried at San Jose Burial Park in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.

557 iii. EMERY LEE DELAVAN,  SR.(#1575) was born December 1, 1938 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.       

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