JOHNSON, Helen Mae (nee Saia) 1928-2004

JOHNSON, SAIA, ANTOINETTI

Posted By: K. Kittleson
Date: 11/30/2008 at 17:08:46

Helen Johnson, 75, of Greene, died Tuesday, April 27, 2004, at the 11th Street Chautauqua Guest Home in Charles City. No funeral services are being planned.

The Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City is in charge of arrangements.

Helen Mae Saia Johnson was born May 18, 1928, in Crawford County, Kansas, the daughter of Sam and Edith (Antoinetti) Saia. She graduated from St. Mary’s Catholic High School, Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1945. On October 5, 1946, she was united in marriage to Raymond A. Johnson at Columbus, Kansas. In 1955 they moved to the Allison area where they farmed and in 1967 they moved to the Greene area where they continued farming to the present time.

She was a member of St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Vilmar. Helen enjoyed cooking and doing needlework. She particularly liked making quilts and afghans.

Helen will be remembered as a person that liked to help everyone as seen in her teaching Bible school in Parkersburg, making homemade noodles for charity dinners, donating stuffed animals to Iowa City Children’s Hospital and making clowns for children. She was very talented. Her family will always remember the many fishing and camping excursions they had together.

Living family members include her husband, Raymond A. Johnson of Greene; a son, Robert (Angie) Johnson of Centerpoint, Iowa; a daughter Ramona (Michael) Kasemeier of Sumner; five grandchildren, Jason Johnson, Alexandria Streinz, Jonathon Johnson, Jennifer Lane, and Beth Kasemeier; and four great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

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