JOHNSON, Greg Alan 1968-1987

JOHNSON, TESCH, NOBLE, THORSON, ECKERT

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/30/2009 at 22:17:50

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Funeral services were held on Friday, June 5, 1987, at St. Ansgar Baptist Church, for Greg A. Johnson, 19, of St. Ansgar. Rev. Gary Gonnerman officiated, and burial was in the St. Ansgar Cemetery. He died on Tuesday, June 2, 1987 at a Rochester, Minnesota, hospital.

Mr. Johnson was born on January 22, 1968, at Osage, to Norman and Kathleen (Tesch) Johnson. He graduated from Faith Christian school in 1985.

He was a junior at Pillsbury Baptist Bible College where he was majoring in math and minoring in photography. He was employed in construction for the summer.

Survivors include his parents, Norman and Kathleen Johnson of St. Ansgar; two brothers, Daryl and Ryan both of St. Ansgar; his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Norris Johnson and Mr and Mrs Rudolph Tesch all of St. Ansgar; his great-grandmother, Mrs. Katherine Noble of Austin, Minnesota; and his fiance, Cherie Johnson, of Owatonna, Minnesota.

He was preceded in death by his grandmother and one cousin.

Mitchell County Press-News, Wed., June 10, 1987
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#2:

GREG ALAN JOHNSON

BORN:
January 22, 1968
Osage, Iowa

DIED:
June 2, 1987
Rochester, Minnesota

SERVICES:
June 5, 1987 - 2:00 P.M.

CLERGYMAN:
Rev. Gary Gonnerman

INTERMENT:
St. Ansgar Cemetery
St. Ansgar, Iowa

BEARERS:
Tracey Johnson, Dean Bell, Stephen Smith, Daniel Thome, Daniel Jensen, Joel Maart

FUNERAL HOME:
Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home
St. Ansgar, Iowa
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#3: NOTES--

Minnesota Death Certificate:
County of Death: OLMSTED - certid# 1987-MN-015742

Greg was electrocuted at his place of employment.
He was the son of Norman and Kathleen (Kathy) (Tesch) Johnson.

Brothers: Daryl and Ryan

Maternal grandparents: Rudolph and Arlene (Thorson) (Kroneman) Tesch.

His maternal grandmother Virginia (Noble) Tesch died February 1, 1976 Paternal Grandparents - Norris and Lillian (Eckert) Johnson.
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#4: NEWS STORY--

ST. ANSGAR
MAN DIES IN
CONSTRUCTION
ACCIDENT

MAZEPPPA, MINN. (AP) -- An Iowa man was killed Tuesday in a construction accident here, according to Dr. Paul Belau, the Olmsted County Coroner.

Greg Alan Johnson, 19, of St. Ansgar, Iowa, was killed after construction equipment with which he was working contacted high-voltage power lines. Belau, coroner in Nearby Rochester, where Johnson was taken, said the electrocution is being ruled an accidental death.

Another construction worker was injured in the accident, but Wabasha County sheriff's deputies investigating the accident refused to release his name Tuesday, as did hospital officials in Rochester. The accident was reported at 7:44 a.m.

Johnson and the other man were working on the new waste water treatment plant. The Wabasha County Sheriff's Department refused to say which construction company the men were with.

(Source: newspaper clipping from Karen Robertson).

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