Johnson, Joseph 1914 - 1941
JOHNSON, LARSON, HINES, GULER, BLOCKUS
Posted By: Mary Durr
Date: 5/28/2008 at 20:59:05
JOSEPH JOHNSON
HOLD FUNERAL SERVICE FOR ACCIDENT VICTIM
Coroner's Jury Exonerates Gunder Youths
Funeral services were held Friday afternoon for Joseph Johnson, 27, who was found dead on the Postville-Gunder road last Wednesday morning, at the Gunder Lutheran church with the Rev. E. E. Ramsey officiating. The deceased was survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnson of near Gunder, and five sisters and one brother.
A coroner's jury, composed of Ed McNeil, Marion Lind and Glenn Meyer, pronounced death as accidental after hearing the testimony of witnesses. It was brought out at the coroner's hearing that three Gunder youths returning home early Wednesday morning drove over an object lying in the roadway they presumed to be an endgate as they came upon it over a rise in the road. It late proved to be Johnson, apparently asleep in the roadway.
The youths re-enacted the accident and were absolved from all blame.
Johnson had been in the employ of Rolan Heins for several years and it was near the Heins farm the accident occurred.
Postville Herald newspaper clipping, hand dated 1941, from my mother's obituary collection.
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Added by Reid R. Johnson, 9/3/2024:
Clayton County Register, 24 Sept. 1941.
Joseph Johnson was born Feb. 01, 1914, at Gunder, and died Sept. 17, 1941, of injuries in an automobile accident. He was the son of Carl and Martha Johnson of Gunder.
He was baptized and confirmed in the Marion Lutheran church and received his education in the rural grade schools of Marion township.
Joseph Johnson has always lived in this community, spending his time at home and working for the neighbors, the last place of employment being the Roland Hines farm.
He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnson, one brother, Martin, and five sisters: Mary (Mrs. Adolph Larson), Selma (Mrs. Selma Hines), Clara (Mrs. Henry E. A. Larson), Hilda (Mrs. Bartley Guler), Minerva (Mrs. Herbert Blockus), and twenty nieces and nephews.
Clayton Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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