Johnson, Jeanette Hazel Okland (1911-2005)

JOHNSON, OKLAND, TEIGLAND, MCCASKEY, WHALEN, MILLER, HOVICK

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 3/24/2017 at 14:24:31

South Hamilton Record News, Jewell, Iowa, October 26, 2005

Jeanette Hazel Johnson, 94 of Story City, passed away October 18, 2005 at Israel Family Hospice House in Ames. Funeral services were held on October 22, 2005 at St. Petri Lutheran Church in Story City with burial following at Lawn Hill Cemetery in rural Stanhope.

Jeanette was born August 6, 1911 to parents John Nels and Hanna (Teigland) Okland in rural Hamilton County near Jewell, Iowa. She married Orvie Johnson October 23, 1929. She had lived in Story City since 1991 and was a member of St. Petri Lutheran Church. Prior to that, she was a member of Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Stanhope. She worked at Stanhope Grocery Store and at Iowa State University Residential Halls as a cook. She loved dogs and raising puppies and was excellent in training them.

Survivors include two daughters, Beverly (Berwyn) McCaskey of Ames and Bonnie (Richard) Whalen of Stanhope; one brother, Art Okland of Stratford; two sisters, Esther Miller of Story City and Myrtle Miller of Stanhope; thirteen grandchildren; and fourteen great-grandchildren.

Jeanette was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; three sons, Eugene, Dan and infant Michael; one sister Lois Hovick; and two brothers, Merle and Arnold Okland.

Memorials may be given to the Iowa Blind Association, St. Petri Lutheran Church or Our Saviors Lutheran Church.