Ellen M. Knoff 1910 - 1997

KNOFF MORTENSEN JOHNSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/11/2014 at 16:46:48

20 October 1997

MOORHEAD, Iowa — Ellen M. Knoff, 87, of Newell, Iowa, formerly of Moorhead, died Sunday, Oct. 19, 1997, at the Good Samaritan Center in Newell.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bethesda Lutheran Church in Moorhead, with the Rev. Margo Fohs officiating. Burial will be in Spring Valley Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Pearson Funeral Home of Onawa, Iowa is in charge of the arrangements.

Mrs. Knoff was born Feb. 2, 1910, in Moorhead, the daughter of J. George and Christena (Mortensen) Johnson. She attended school at Moorhead.

She married Andrew T. Knoff on Feb. 27, 1931, in Onawa. He died Jan. 24, 1978, in Onawa. She entered the Good Samaritan Center nine years ago.

She was a member of Bethesda Lutheran Church.

Survivors include a daughter, Betty Knoff of Onawa; five sisters, Margaret Flayharty of Gladstone, Mo., Pearl and her husband Philip O'Dowd of Lom Poc, Calif., Velma Johnson of Elk City, Okla., and Doris and her husband Earl Nelsen of Racine, Wis. and Ethel Johnson of Storm Lake, Iowa; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Edwin, Clarence and John Johnson.