Leonard Curtis JOHNSON

JOHNSON, KEISTER, NORCOTT, HENDERSHOT, ROBINSON, MEYER, TREBON, MAUSSER, JOHNSON-WILLETT, WILLETT, COLLIER, BUCKNELL, MURRAY, PRICE, ROEDING

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/1/2016 at 15:34:53

April 21, 1936 --- January 27, 2016

WATERLOO — Leonard Curtis “Link” Johnson, 79, of Waterloo, died Wednesday, Jan. 27, at St. Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids, from complications of lung cancer surgery.

He was born April 21, 1936, in Eagle Grove, son of Henry and Estella Keister Johnson. He married Karen Norcott on June 14, 1957, at Zion Lutheran Church in Hutchinson, Kan. He graduated from East High School in 1954 and then joined the U.S. Navy as an aircraft mechanic. Link retired from John Deere as an experimental tractor mechanic in 1990.

Survived by: his wife, Karen; two sons, Robert (Felicia) of Pace, Fla, and Mark (Lisa) of Vinton; a daughter, Dawn (Jerry Robinson) Hendershot of Mount Auburn; nine grandchildren, Danielle (Chad) Meyer, Jamie (Ryan) Trebon, Brianna and Brenna Mausser, Corey Johnson, Ryan (Emily) Johnson-Willett, Angela (Chris) Collier, Joshua and Nicholas Johnson; two great-granddaughters, Sydney Bucknell and Alexis Collier; three great-grandsons, Ethen and Brock Meyer and Keaton Trebon; and a sister, Faye Johnson of Chula Vista, Calif. Preceded in death by: his parents; six brothers, Edward, Leo, Gerald, Ray, Robert and Merle Johnson; two sisters, Donna Murray and Myrtle Price Roeding; and a great-granddaughter, Hailey Rae Bucknell.

Services: 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 1, at Grace Lutheran Church, with burial in Garden of Memories with military rites by Gilbertville American Legion Post 714. Visitation will be from 2 to 6 p.m. today, Jan. 31, at Parrott & Wood Chapel of Memories, an Overton Family Service, and for an hour before services Monday. Memorials: may be directed to Grace Lutheran Church or St. Jude’s Children Hospital.

He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, uncle and friend. He will be missed by all who were lucky enough to have known him.

The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier - Iowa
January 31, 2016