JOHNSON, Agatha L. 1912-1999

JOHNSON

Posted By: Kermit Kittleson
Date: 10/17/2010 at 17:48:48

AGATHA "PEG" LEONE JOHNSON

MANLY, IOWA - Agatha "Peg" Leone Johnson, 86, died Friday, March 19, 1999, at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday, March 22, at the Bride Colonial Chapel, 110 E. Spring St., Manly, with the Rev. Robert Cumings of the Bethel United Methodist Church in Manly officiating. Burial will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Highway 18 West, Mason City.

Friends may call from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the service on Monday at the chapel.

Agatha Leone "Peg" Johnson was born on Oct. 21, 1912, the daughter of Henry and Emma K. (Johnston) Yearling. She received her education in the rural New Hampton school system. She was united in marriage to Orlando "Ole" Johnson on December 6, 1931, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. He preceded her in death on August 4, 1991.

After their marriage they lived in St. Ansgar for a time and to this union a son, Dean, was born in 1933. They later moved to Fertile where Russ was born in 1941. In 1945 they moved to Manly where Agatha resided until her death.

She enjoyed fishing and took many trips to Northern Minnesota. After her husband's retirement, they spent many summers at Harper's Ferry where they had a cabin and enjoyed fishing on the Mississippi River. She enjoyed the simple things of life and never did any traveling other than contiguous states.

Many hours were spent knitting and crocheting for family and friends and always with love. When in older age the fingers didn't work as she would have liked, she switched to needle work and some number painting.

She never worked outside the home much with the exception of clerking at the Snyder Grocery Store and working a while at Fryer Farms Chicken Processing.

Homemaker was her main goal in life and she was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She especially enjoyed all of her family, fishing trips to Minnesota which always included a nephew or two. Agatha's brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews were also important to her and were a valuable part of her life.

Grandchildren and great-grandchildren were always welcome and always went home a little more spoiled than when they arrived. Her friends and neighbors were very special to her, and she was special to them.

Agatha was saved and baptized in the Church of Christ in Fertile in the early 1940s and was very active in the church.

Left to cherish her memory is a son, Russ Johnson and his wife, Jean, of Newhall, Iowa; four grandchildren, Randy Johnson of Manly, Becky Johnson of Mason City, Lori Wallen and her husband, Tim, of Ames, and Jennifer Fliehman and her husband, Shawn, of Cedar Falls; four great-grandchildren, Kristin and Mark Johnson of Garner and Tanner and Taylor Wallen of Ames; and several nieces and nephews as well as other relatives and friends.

Besides her husband she was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Dean Johnson who died on May 8, 1994; and seven brothers and sisters.

Bride Colonial Chapel, Manly - (515) 454-2242

(Sunday, March 21, 1999, Mason City Globe Gazette)