Armin B. Johnson, 1920-1992

JOHNSON, PADEL

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Date: 10/12/2018 at 15:12:42

Armin B Johnson, 1920-1992

Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa, September 1992

Lawton, Iowa – Armin B. Johnson, 72, of Lawton died Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1992, at a Sioux City hospital emergency room of an apparent heart attack.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Lawton Community Presbyterian Church with Dr. Robert E. Peters officiating. Burial will be in Arlington Township Cemetery at Moville, with a Masonic service conducted by Trial Lodge 532 and military rites conducted by Lawton American Legion Post 718. Visitation will be 2-9 p.m. today at McCulloch Funeral Home in Moville. A prayer service will be at 7 p.m. today at the funeral home, conducted by the Rev. Larry Squier of the Clear Lake Christian Church.

Mr. Johnson was born March 23, 1920, in Lawton and was a lifelong resident. He attended Lawton High School. He married Carol I. Padel Dec. 25, 1941, in Ponca, Neb. He owned and operated an electric shop in Moville; was a mechanic; was a self-employed over-the-road trucker; farmed; was a Wynn’s Friction Proofing salesman and was a security guard at the Sioux City Airport.

Mr. Johnson was a member of the Lawton Community Presbyterian Church; Trial Lodge 532 AF&AM of Moville; Lawton American Legion Post 718; Veterans of Foreign Wars; Moose Lodge of Sioux City and the Moville Odd Fellows Lodge. He served in the U.S. Air Force, as an airplane mechanic, during World War II.

Survivors include his wife; three sons and their wives, Terry and Sandra Johnson of Lawton, Don and Jan Johnson of Long Grove, Iowa, and Reed and Linda Johnson of Clovis, N.M.; two daughters and their husbands, Connie and Vern Dyson of Moville and Geri and Tom Phillips of Sioux City; 17 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; wo sisters, Emma Johnson of Sioux City and Lela Essick of Alcester, S.D.; and three brothers, Noah Johnson of California, Darrelle Johnson of Brunswick, Mo., and Isaac Johnson of Sioux City.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother, Leonard.