Dolores Jean ((Revia) Johnson 1943-2012

REVIA JOHNSON JOUNGWIRTH

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 7/26/2012 at 14:19:12

Sioux City Journal
February 01, 2012

Dolores J. Johnson, 68, of Mapleton, formerly of Missouri Valley, Iowa, died Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, at the Methodist Hospital in Omaha.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Mapleton, with the Rev. Brian Danner officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. Thursday, with a rosary by St. Mary's Guild at 4:30 p.m. and a vigil wake service at 7 p.m., at Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton. Visitation will resume one hour prior to the service Friday at the church.

Dolores Jean ((Revia) Johnson was born Oct. 5, 1943, in Sioux City, the daughter of Leonard and Florence (Joungwirth) Revia. She lived on the farm at Stanton, Neb., until around the age of 10, when the family moved to Omaha. She graduated from Tech High School and attended Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

On July 4, 1964, Dolores was united in marriage to Wayne Johnson at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Omaha. Along with caring for her family, she worked as a secretary in the Omaha Public School System. In 1970, they moved to Missouri Valley, Iowa, and in 2005, moved to their current home in Mapleton.

While in college, Dolores was a member of Phi Theta Cappa and was on the dean's list. She was co-leader of the Camp Fire Girls over the years and a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church and the Altar Society in Missouri Valley.

Survivors include her husband of 47 years, Wayne; two sons, Wayne and Daniel Johnson of Mapleton, and his son, Jonathan; two daughters and their husbands, Michelle and Jody Walsh of Mapleton and their children, Tyler, Madison, and Elisabeth, and Nikole and Tom Biggans of Henderson, Nev., and their daughter, Jessica; three sisters, LeAnne Paulson, Candy Boylan, and Robin Linhart and her husband, Joe, all of Omaha; two brothers-in-law, Tom Johnson and his wife, Maria and Jay Stambaugh, all of Omaha; a sister-in-law, Helen Regan and her husband, John of Bradyville, Iowa; along with aunts, uncles, and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Leonard and Florence Revia; and a sister, Diane Stambaugh.

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