Knute Johnson 1859-1947

JOHNSON, HALLECK, GAMMON, OLSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 10/10/2010 at 19:17:10

Knut [Knute] Johnson Succumbs Friday to Short Illness
Knut Johnson passed away last Friday [November 14, 1947] night at Holy Family hospital where he had been a medical patient for a short time. Mr. Johnson was 88 years of age and had been in ailing health for several months. He was born in Rosendahl, Norway, on October 30, 1859. He came to this country in 1878 and with the family settled a farm in Palo Alto County in 1892 and lived there 20 years before retirement. He then purchased a home in Estherville and has resided here since that time.

He is survived by two sons, Lewis of Moline, Ill., and Daniel of this city, and three daughters, Mrs. Clifford Halleck and Mrs. H. E. Gammon of Des Moines, and Mrs. Martin Olson of this city.

Funeral services were held on Monday at 1:30 from the Sternborg Funeral Chapel and from the Estherville Lutheran Church at 2:00, the Rev. C. M. Hanson officiating. Interment was made in Oak Hill cemetery. (Estherville Enterprise, Estherville, IA, November 20, 1947)