EARL EUGENE JOHNSON

KREY, COX, JOHNSON, BUDDENBERG

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 12/26/2002 at 09:56:23

EARL EUGENE JOHNSON

Services Held For Earl E. Johnson

Services were conducted from St. Paul Lutheran Church, Friday, January 7 at 1:30 p.m. for Earl Johnson who died at his home near Postville, January 4. The Rev. Walter Otto officiated.

Earl Eugene Johnson, son of William Cox and his wife Margaretha Krey Cox, was born in Page County, Iowa, August 8, 1919. The family moved to Verndale, Minnesota. After the loss of their parents, Earl and his brothers entered a home for orphaned children at Owatonna, Minnesota. At the age of five, Earl became the adopted son of Nicolai and Alma Johnson of Ostrander, Minnesota.

He attended a rural school in Fillmore county, Minnesota and worked on farms in that area. He served four years with the army during World War II, being one of the men who fought in the Battle of the Bulge.

Earl was married May 26, 1949 to Lolita Buddenberg of Castalia, at the Little Brown Church, Nashua, by the Rev. Hanscom.

The couple became the parents of five children.

Mr. Johnson farmed in the Castalia and Postville area until failing health curtailed his activities. He was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, the Farm Bureau and was a past commander of Carleton E. Kenney Post 9125 of the Veteran's of Foreign Wars.

Mr. Johnson was preceded in death by his parents and his adoptive parents.

Surviving are his wife Lolita; three sons, Alan, Gerald and James; two daughters, Lianne and Robyn; two brothers, Charles Cox of Wauseka, Minnesota and Kenneth Cox of Owatonna, Minnesota, and other members of the Cox, Johnson and Buddenberg families.

Interment was in the Pleasant View Cemetery.

Postville Herald newspaper, hand dated 1972, from my mother's obituary collection.