Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 04/ /1959

Johnson, Edwin (1894 - 1959)

GREENWOOD--Edwin Adolph Johnson, 64, of Greenwood, Clark County, died Sunday afternoon, April 26, 1959, in St. Joseph's Hospital at Marshfield, after being a patient there a week. On April 8 he had returned home from a veterans hospital in Minneapolis, where he had been a patient 10 weeks.

Military funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in Our Savior's Lutheran Church. The Rev. Ira J. Tanner will officiate and burial will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hill Funeral Home, beginning this evening.

Mr. Johnson was born Oct. 1, 1894, at Blanchardville. At the age of eight he came to the Greenwood area with his parents and resided here the rest of his life. He engaged in farming for a number of years and also was a mason by trade.

On March 23, 1920, he was married at Chicago, Ill., to Gertrude Olson, who survives him.

He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Wallis-Hinker Legion Post. He also was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church.

He is survived by two sons, Bernard, Rivera, Calif., and Howard, Whittier, Calif. two daughters, Mrs. Jake (Ruth) Barr, Greenwood, and Mrs. Howard (Shirley) Susa, Greenwood seven grandchildren one sister, Mrs. George (Anne) Vollrath, Greenwood and one brother, Henry Johnson, Greenwood.