Johnson, Mary Lu (Horton) 1927 - 2019

JOHNSON, HORTON, RYAN, HOLOD, MASLA, TRAVER, LORENZ, RUSSETT

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:45

Mary Lu Johnson, 92, a resident of Bettendorf, formerly of Davenport, died Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, at Genesis Medical Center, East Campus in Davenport. Funeral services and Mass of Christian Burial are at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6, at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Davenport. A rosary will be prayed at 4:30 p.m. with visitation following from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, at Halligan McCabe DeVries Funeral Home in Davenport. An additional visitation will be held one hour prior to mass at the Cathedral on Friday. Graveside services are at 12 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at St. Benedict Cemetery in Decorah.

Mary Lu (Horton) Johnson was born July 20, 1927, in Calmar, to Dr. Vincent and Genevieve (Ryan) Horton. She graduated from Calmar High School and enlisted in the Navy Cadet Nurse Corps in 1945. She graduated nurse’s training from the Mayo Clinic, St Mary’s Hospital, in Rochester, Minn. and began her career as a nurse at Decorah Hospital.

She married Kenneth J. Johnson of Decorah June 7, 1950. They moved from Decorah to Davenport in 1963 with their four children.

In Decorah Mary Lu was president of the Decorah Newcomer’s Club and The Rosary Society; board member of the Decorah Hospital Auxiliary; and member of the St. Benedict School building project.

In Davenport Mary Lu served as president of the Catholic Service Board in one of many roles over 30 years; vice president of the initial Lay Council at Sacred Heart Cathedral; member of Sacred Heart Board of Education; eucharistic minister at Sacred Heart Cathedral; AFS chairman at Assumption High School; and a 50-year member of P.E.O. Chapter FJ as well as the Lindsay Park Yacht Club where she loved to host her Bridge Club on Valhalla.

Survivors include her children: Mark (Kathleen) Johnson, Houston, Texas, Anne Johnson, St. Petersburg, Fla. and Beth (Douglas) Johnson Holod, Saint Paul, Minn.; grandchildren: Mark (Paige), Michael (Sara), Brittany, Anna, Monique, Daniel, Adam; and six great-granddaughters: Stella, Harper, Lindsay, Taylor, Brooke and Faith; and one great-grandson. Dylan Karl; siblings, Vincent J. (Gail) Horton, Robert J. (Emily) Horton; sisters-in-law, Mary Lou (John) Masla, Karen (William), Traver; and many nieces and nephews whom she treasured so much.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; son, Karl Horton Johnson; and sisters: Ruth (John), Anne (Norbert) Lorenz, Helen (Randall) Russett.

Source: Decorah Newspapers Sept. 4, 2019

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