Surnames: Johnson, Fitzl, Bye, Solie

----Source: THORP COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 11/17/1949

Johnson, Jens P. (23 AUG 1886 - 12 NOV 1949)

Last rites were conducted by Rev. J. N. Midtlien at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church at Stanley Monday afternoon at two o’clock for Jens Peter Johnson, 63, who died at his farm home in the Town of Worden (Clark Co., Wis.), Saturday, Nov. 12, 1949 at 6:00 a.m.

Mr. Johnson, who came to the Town of Worden with his parents fifty years ago, has resided their ever since. He was married there on Sept. 25, 1910.

Surviving him are his wife and ten children: Lloyd of Worden, Robert of Marengo, Ill., Dorothy Mae, Mrs. Orneal Johnson of Worden, Margaret, Mrs. John Fitzl of Greenwood, Arnold and Donald of Greenwood, Elmer in the U.S. Army, Everett, Viola and Elsie Marie at home; four brothers, Carl, George, Hans and Ole, all of Worden; two sisters, Elsie, Mrs. Nels Bye of Worden and Dorothea, Mrs. Clarence Solie of Stanley, and twenty-one grandchildren.

Burial was made in the East Side Cemetery at Stanley.