Etta Fern Cline

Etta Fern Cline

Etta Cline Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Bunker Family Funerals & Cremation - University Chapel on Sep. 29, 2025.

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Etta Fern Johnson/Cline, aged 94, passed away September 18, 2025 in Mesa, Arizona.

She was the matriarch of the Cline family being preceded in death by her parents, James and Laura Johnson, one brother, Jack Johnson and two sisters Addie May Johnson, and Rose Lee Morris, and one son, James Cline, and her husband of seventy six years, Paul Cline. She is survived by two daughters, Linda (Charles) de Masi, and Sharon (Henry) Burgunder, all of Mesa, and one son, Mark (Debra) Cline, of Harrah Oklahoma, nine grandchildren, sixteen great grandchildren, and eight great, great grandchildren.

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