Johnson, Mary 1901-2000

JOHNSON, JANSSEN, KLAVE

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 7/15/2008 at 18:10:47

NAME OF DECEASED & AGE: Mary Johnson, 98, of Hawarden
CAUSE OF DEATH:
DATE of DEATH: Saturday, March 11, 2000
PLACE of DEATH: at Hillcrest Health Center in Hawarden
DATE of BIRTH: May 16, 1901
PLACE of BIRTH: near Ireton, Iowa
PARENTS: daughter of Rudolph and Theda (Janssen) Klave
SPOUSE & DATE of MARRIAGE: Onno Johnson, March 7, 1928
PLACE OF MARRIAGE: in Nebraska
OCCUPATION: The lived on the family farm north of Hawarden until 1940 when they moved to a farm in Grant township, rural LeMars. In 1947 and for the next 37 years they were custodians of Christ Lutheran Church. They moved to Hawarden in 1984 due to her husband’s health. He died Dec. 5, 1987.
SURVIVORS: include two sisters-in-law, Ida Johnson of Hawarden and Evelyn Klave of Akron, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews.
PRECEDED in DEATH by: four brothers, Rudy, Onnie, Albert and Art; and six sisters, Sophie Van Wyhe, Lena Edmunds, Annie Marshall, Martha Klave, Louise Short and Esther Watkins.
PLACE of BURIAL: Grace Hill Cemetery, Hawarden, Iowa
NEWSPAPER SOURCE & DATE: The Sioux City Journal

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