Gaylen Derold JOHNSON

JOHNSON, HEFTE, STURGEON, STREGE, MALLEN, HONSEY, SHAHAN, CHRISTENSON, FRIESLEBEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/10/2008 at 19:12:18

BRITT, IA - Gaylen Derold Johnson, 76, of Kanawha, passed away Monday (Jan. 24, 2000) at the Kanawha Community Home. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at the Lutheran Church in Kanawha, with Pastor Keith Sievers officiating. Burial will be in the Amsterdam Township Cemetery in Kanawha. Visitation was held on Tuesday at the Ewing Dugger Funeral Home in Kanawha. Additional visitation will be held one hour prior to services today at the church.

Gaylen was born on Feb. 27, 1923, to Carlton and Adina (Hefte) Johnson on a farm west of Belmond. He attended country school. On Nov. 6, 1943, he was married to Delores Sturgeon in Belmond. He worked at Farmers Grain Company and for the city of Belmond and then moved west of Kanawha where he farmed for 14 years. Then he worked at Winnebago Industries four years and as parts manager at Broshar Implement until retirement. Gaylen was an active member of Kanawha Lutheran Church. He enjoyed bowling, but his real love was to take Delores dancing.

Gaylen is survived by two daughters, Angela Strege and her husband, Kevin, of Bakersfield, Calif. and Andrea Mallen of Mason City and her special friend, Denny Honsey, of Minneapolis, Minn.; one son, Todd Johnson of Buffalo Center; one daughter-in-law, Sherry Johnson of Kanawha; five grandchildren, Travis and his wife, Sue, of Grimes, Chad of West Des Moines and his fiancee, Steph, of Belmond, Jade of Clinton, Mitchell of Buffalo Center, and Jacey of Britt and one great-grandson, Drew; three sisters, Edith Shahan and her husband, Stanley, of Ames; Carol Christenson and her husband, Earl, of Forest City, and Wilma Friesleben of Belmond; three brothers, Dudley Johnson and his wife, Janice, of Kanawha, Arland Johnson and his wife, Avis, of Hector, Minn., and Gary Johnson and his wife, Barbara, of St. Johns, Newfoundland; and many nieces and nephews. Gaylen was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Delores, on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2000; one son, Tony Johnson; one great-grandson, Jordan Chase Johnson; and two sisters, Laura Simon and Aileen Johnson.

Mason City Globe Gazette
1/26/2000