Pearl Scott Van Derveer Johnson was the fifth of six children born to the 1893 Land Run pioneers, Charles Franklin Scott and Mary Wolf Scott. She started school at five years of age in a one-room school near Braman. At the age of twelve she moved to Waukomis to live with her sister and graduated from Waukomis High School. She graduated from the Enid School of Business in 1930, specializing in business administration, accounting and contract law. In 1934, she married Charles Sherman Van Derveer who was a marketing superintendent for Continental Oil. During World War II she was a pilot with a Commercial Rating in Air Navigation and Meteorology and flew with the Civil Air Patrol. Her husband was also a pilot and was killed in a plane crash in 1948. For the next sixteen years, she held various supervisory jobs for United States Engineering Companies and the U.S. military throughout the Middle East and Europe, spending her last two years in Alaska. During her time overseas, she was a roommate and friend to a famous American sports figure, Florence Chadwick, who swam the English Channel. Pearl appeared in newsreels and papers worldwide and accompanied Florence on her triumphant return to the United States riding with her in a ticker tape parade in New York City and attending gala affairs on both coasts with stops nationwide. She married George W. Johnson in 1962 in Sacramento, California, where prior to her retirement in 1972, she served ten years as a Land Examiner Adjudicator for the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. Upon retirement they lived for four years in San Jose, Costa Rica, then settling in Kerrville, Texas, where she lived for twenty years running an art studio and gallery and teaching art. Her husband preceded her in death in 1978 and she spent her remaining years in Blackwell.

She is survived by two nieces, Shirley Scott Fuller and husband Kear of Blackwell, Oklahoma, and Brook Farm, England, and Madeline Danner of Corvallis, Oregon; two nephews, Lloyd Scott Jr. and wife Pam of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Robert Majors and wife Delores of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and numerous great nieces and nephews.

She was also preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Roy and Lloyd Scott; three sisters, Nellie Majors, Elsie Scott Shields and Anna Scott Worley; and a niece, Mary Ann Scott Petrey.

Services are scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Thursday, December 27th, in the Roberts and Son Funeral Home Chapel with James W. Roberts officiating. Burial will follow in the Braman Cemetery.

Casketbearers will be Brock Massey, Craig Day, Don Sodowsky, Billy Curtis, Richard Denton, Lee Day, Max Hawkins, Bill Rigdon and John Williamson.

There will be no public visitation.