Johns, Lloyd 1887-1981

JOHNS, BENNETT, CHARLTON

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/26/2008 at 15:35:53

OLDEST WESTMAR GRADUATE, LLOYD JOHNS, DEAD AT AGE OF 93

Lloyd William Johns, 93, who had lived more than 60 years in LeMars and the area, died Wednesday (Aug. 19, 1981) at Plymouth Manor Care Center in LeMars.

He had lived at the center for five years during a long illness.

Services will be Friday at 1:30 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in LeMars. Rev. Everett Staats, Storm Lake, a former pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cherokee, under the direction of the Mauer funeral home in LeMars.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Blanche in 1971; three brothers and three sisters.

Mr. Johns was born Sept. 1, 1887, in Sheridan township, Cherokee county, to Henry and Emma Bennett Johns. He lived there until 1920 when he moved to LeMars. He was a retired farmer.

His marriage to Edith Blanche Charlton took place Dec. 29, 1915, at Cherokee.

Mr. Johns united with the Methodist church in 1898 and served as a teacher, church and school leader and on administrative committees of the church. He helped to build the new First Methodist Church in 1915.

He was the oldest living (1906) graduate of Westmar College and was a 1911 graduate of Morningside College, Sioux City. He remained active visiting people and calling on the sick and shut-ins until his own confinement. A highlight of his life was a visit to Ireland when he was in his early 80s.

His interests were many and varied. In later years he was called the poet laureate of LeMars by the Daily Sentinel.

Survivors are his son, Robert Johns, Mount Prospect, Ill.; three daughters, Mrs. Paul (Geraldine) Mullineaux, Athens, Mich.; Mrs. Dale (Jane) Robar, Alta; and Mrs. Keith (Dorothy) Hansen, Sioux City; 12 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

~Source: The LeMars Sentinel, August 1981