----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 06/ /1968

Johnson, Gertrude (1900 - 1968)

GREENWOOD--Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church here for Mrs. Gertrude Johnson, 67, who died Monday, June 10, 1968, in St. Joseph's Hospital at Marshfield. She had been a patient at the hospital since May 18, following a car accident. The Rev. Arvid Myhrwold will officiate, and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home here from Thursday afternoon until 11 a.m. Friday, and then at the church.

The former Gertrud Caroline Olson was born Sept. 5, 1900, in Chicago. Her marriage to Edwin A. Johnson, who preceded her in death in April 1959, took place March 23, 1920, in Chicago.
After their marriage, the couple farmed west of Greenwood until 1945, when they moved to the city of Greenwood.

Mrs. Johnson was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church, the American Lutheran Church Women, Esther Circle, the American Legion auxiliary, and the Neighborhood Group.

Survivors are two sons, Bernard and Howard Johnson, Wittier, Calif. two daughters, Mrs. Jake (Ruth) Barr and Mrs. Howard (Shirley) Susa, Greenwood two brothers, Emmett Olson, Chicago and Walter Olson, Brookfield, Ill. and 11 grandchildren.