Clyde E. "Snowball" Johnson 1913-2012

JOHNSON BRENDAN BROUILLETTE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/24/2012 at 13:23:40

Sioux City Journal
January 20, 2012

Clyde E. "Snowball" Johnson, 98, of Sloan passed away Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, at a local hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Salix, Iowa, with Monsignor Kenneth Seifried officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery, with military rites conducted by the U.S. Navy. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 5 to 7 p.m., at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Waterbury Funeral Service in Sergeant Bluff.

Clyde was born June 13, 1913, in Sloan, to Elmer and Amelia (Brendan) Johnson. Clyde was raised on a farm outside of Sloan, attended country school and graduated from Sloan High School.

He married Dolores Brouillette on Dec. 16, 1940, and they raised their family in Sloan. Clyde served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a Seabee on Guadalcanal in the South Pacific and on Kodiak Island in Alaska. He worked most of his life as a bricklayer for W.A. Klinger, until his retirement in the early 1980s. After retirement, they spent many winters in Arizona and summers in Alaska.

He was a member of the Sloan Volunteer Fire Department for more than 40 years. He had so many hobbies they are too numerous to list, but a few of them were coin collecting, fishing, hunting, trapping, hunting mushrooms and building model airplanes. He had a special love for gardening and would be considered by most to be a master. He had a wonderful vegetable garden but also loved to grow flowers. Most of all, he loved to share the bounties of his gardens with friends and family.

Clyde is survived by his sons, Larry Johnson and his wife, Mary of Sloan, and Stanley Johnson and his wife, Deb of Salix; his daughters, Sandra Richardson of Logan, Iowa, Judy Richardson and her friend, Rick Tieman of Sloan, and Rita and her husband, Steve Mace of Girdwood, Alaska; 17 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by by his wife, Dolores; his brothers, Ellerd and Herbert Johnson; his sister, Ethel Davis; and one grandchild, Donald Wittke; and a son-in-law, Jerry Richardson.