Vergil Evans Johnson 1925 - 1996

JOHNSON, SORENSON

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Date: 3/11/2021 at 22:16:46

Sioux City Journal
27 December 1996

Vergil E. Johnson

MOORHEAD, Iowa - Vergil Evans Johnson, 71, of Moorhead died Wednesday, Dec. 25, 1996, at a Omaha, Neb. hospital.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Bethesda Lutheran Church in Moorhead, with the Rev. Margo Fohs officiating. Burial will be in Spring Valley Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at the Pearson Funeral Home in Onawa, Iowa.

Mr. Johnson was born Sept. 21, 1925, near Moorhead, the son of Andrew Jorgen and Lena (Sorenson) Johnson. He attended Bailor country school and graduated from Moorhead High School in 1943. He farmed with his father and brothers until he was drafted in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was discharged in 1946. He operated a maintainer for Sioux Township and farmed. He married Marjorie Leone Sorensen on June 19, 1949, in Moorhead. The couple farmed with his father and their sons.

He was a member of the Bethesda Lutheran Church serving on the church council and was Sunday School superintendent for over 30 years. He served on the Moorhead Co-op board, and the East Monona School board. He was a member of the Peter A. Hanson American Legion Post 365, and a tour guide for the Hospitality Center at Moorhead.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter Nancy Johnson of Omaha; three sons and their wives, Steve and Joanne of Onawa, Sam and Susan and Mark and Kris all of Moorhead; a brother, Carroll and his wife Jeanne of Moorhead; three sisters, Lavonne Woffington of Tarentum, Penn., Nola Eskelsen of Moorhead and Rosalie Schroeder and her husband Ernest of Honey Creek, Iowa; seven grandchildren, Matthew, Beth, Sarah, Seth, Skyler, Danielle, and Heather; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Howard; and a sister, Evelyn Hansen.