Johansen, Norma Jean 1926-2004

JOHANSEN, BRYANT, PERRY

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer
Date: 4/14/2007 at 20:04:31

LE MARS, Iowa -- Norma Jean Johansen, 77, of Le Mars passed away Tuesday, April 27, 2004, at Brentwood Good Samaritan Center in Le Mars.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Grace Lutheran Church in Le Mars, with the Rev. Larry Fett officiating. Burial will be in Hillside Cemetery, Merrill, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in Le Mars. Visitation will resume one hour prior to the service Friday at the church.

Norma Jean Johansen was born Dec. 29, 1926, in Rockwell City, Iowa, to Grover and Esther (Perry) Bryant. She attended school in Storm Lake, Iowa. The family moved to Dyer, Tenn., when she was a young girl. She later returned to Iowa, making Le Mars her home in 1940.

On Feb. 14, 1943, she and Marvin Johansen were united in marriage in Dakota City. They made their home on a farm in Washington Township, west of Le Mars. The couple farmed and raised their family there until moving into Le Mars in 1972. It was then that she went to work at Floyd Valley Hospital. She retired in 1975. She moved to Brentwood Good Samaritan Center on Dec. 24, 2003.

She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church and belonged to the Sara Circle. She enjoyed crocheting, baking, crossword puzzles and most of all, spending time with her family.

She will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Marvin of Le Mars; a son and his wife, Dean and Sandy of Hot Springs Village, Ark.; two daughters and their husbands, Barb and Denny Kowalke and Rhonda and Rod Tammen, all of Le Mars; three granddaughters, Jamie Ioos and her special friend, Mark Nutini of Las Vegas, Nev., Jocelyn and her husband, Glen Woods of San Pedro, Calif., and Tracy and her husband, Kyle Moore of Sioux City; a grandson and his wife, Troy and Dawn Tammen of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.; three great-grandsons, Cameron and Caleb Tammen and Bryce Moore; a sister and her husband, Louise and Bill Becton of Dyer, Tenn.; and a brother and his wife, Kenneth and Billie Bryant of Germantown, Tenn.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

[Part of the Darrell Eason Obituary Collection; source:Sioux City Journal]