Johnson, Robert S. 1916-2002

JOHNSON, PETERSON, SULLIVAN, SCERUBEL, MAHAN, BEWYER, SWEDBERG

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Date: 5/2/2005 at 16:23:25

Newton (IA) Daily News January 15, 2002

Johnson, Robert S.

Robert S. Johnson, 85, of 404 E. 17th St. died of cancer Monday, Jan. 14, at Skiff Medical Center in Newton.

Funeral services will be Thursday at 1 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Newton with the Rev. Matthew Marten officiating. Burial will be at Newton Union Cemetery. Reese Funeral Home in Newton is handling arrangements. Friends may call at the church from 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday and from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday. Memorials win be accepted to First Lutheran Church.

The son of Clarence S. and Clara V. Peterson Johnson, he was born July 25, 1916, in Munterville. He attended Munterville and Wapello County Schools and graduated from Ottumwa High School in l933. He later graduated from the St. Louis College of Mortuary Science in St. Louis, Mo. On June 8, 1940, he married Kathryn Sullivan. He was a member of Emerson Hough Chapter of the lzaak Walton League, Iowa Funeral Directors Association, Masonic Lodge #59 and Newton Noon Kiwanis Club. He served on the Newton City Council for many years and on the Planning and Zoning Commission for 22 years.

Mr. Johnson was a funeral director and he owned and operated Johnson Funeral Home in Newton from 1947 until 1975, when it was purchased by Harold Reese. He then formed the Iowa Farm and Home Real Estate Company and was a salesman/broker until retirement in 1996. He enjoyed family trips and fishing.

Survivors include his wife, two sons and daughter-in-law, R. Steven and Janet of Newton and Christopher of Des Moines; three daughters and sons-in-law, Marsha and Richard Scerubel of St. Joseph, Mo., Sue and Charles Mahan of Twin Rivers, Wis., and Barbara and Dennis Bewyer of Iowa City, 12 grandchildren, seven great-grand-children; and a sister and brother- in-law, Lela and Myron Swedberg of Duluth, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and two sisters.

Originally submitted on Mon Oct 21 20:50:05 2002