Harrison Daniel Johnson (1889-1946)

JOHNSON, TUDOR, HULL, SMITH, KENT, AHLBRECHT, SUNDSTROM, AMBERSON, SHANKE, SIEGFRIED

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal June 13, 1946 (page 6)

Harrison D. Johnson Former Colo Resident Died in California

The following obituary of Harrison D. Johnson, former Colo resident, was published in the Whittier News, Whittier, Calif. Friday evening, May 31:

Harrison D. Johnson, of Whittier, Calif., passed away May 15, 1946, at the Birmingham Hospital, and was laid to rest May 20 at Rose Hills Memorial Park, with funeral services officiated by Rev. W. W. Kaler, minister of the Methodist Church.

Mr. Johnson was born near Ogden, Illinois, and lived there 13 years before moving near Colo, Iowa, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Johnson. His mother was Nancy Ann Tudor of Ohio and his father, Hans Johnson, native of Denmark.

He grew to manhood in Colo, Iowa, and after farming with his father, decided he would enter into the lumber and grain business. He attended business college at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and following completion of his course was manager in a lumber yard, and assistant grain manager, finally assuming the managership of a grain elevator at Cambridge, Iowa.

He married Miss Marie Hull of Maxwell, Iowa, and one year later was called to service in the U. S. Army. He returned from overseas in August of 1919.

In 1921 the deceased and his wife moved to Whittier, where their only daughter, Barbara Jean, was born.

For 21 years Mr. Johnson was employed by Saunders Brothers. Unable to enlist in the armed forces he sought work in shipyards for three years, during the last World War. He then returned to Saunders Brothers and in a year's interval also was a city employee.

A member of the Methodist Church, he was baptized by Rev. Oliver, whom he greatly loved.

He leaves to survive, his wife, Marie; daughter, Barbara Smith, of Ada, Oklahoma; two grandsons, James Kent II and Richard Harrison Smith of Ada, Oklahoma; three brothers, George and Lester of New Hampton, Iowa, and William of St. Peter, Minn.; five sisters, Cora Ahlbrecht of Royalton, Min., Sundstrom of Albert Lea, Minn., Mary Amberson of Eauclaire, Wis., and Delcie Shanke and Stella Siegfried, both of Los Angeles, and a host of friends.

Mr. Johnson was a friend of all, especially children. He will be greatly missed by his family, neighbors and friends. The theme of his life can easily be--"He went about doing good."