Obit: Johnson, Mabel #2 (1897 - 1962)

Contact: Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Johnson, Ellingson, Anderson, Kuehl, Murat, Gilbert, Vangsness, Schneider, Schendel, Simmons, Norson, Mohr, Quast, O’Connor, Herrick, Barker, Hegenbarth, Windom, Thompson, Voie, Cox, Verhulst, Myhrwold

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) October 25, 1962

Johnson, Mabel (22 May 1897 - 16 October 1962)

Mrs. Elmer Johnson, 65, a lifelong resident of the Greenwood area, died October 16, in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield, where she had been admitted earlier that afternoon. She had been in poor health for a number of years.

The former Mabel Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Johnson, was born May 22, 1897, at Longwood, and was married July 18, 1917, in Greenwood to Elmer Johnson, who died January 23, 1960.  She was a member of the Auxiliary of the Clark County Letter Carriers and of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church.  Mrs. Johnson taught Sunday school there for many years.

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Erling (Marie) Ellingson of Elmhurst, Ill.; six grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Morris Anderson of Stevens Point and Mrs. Nola Kuehl of Sun Prairie.

Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church.  The Rev. Arvid Myhrwold officiated.  Burial was made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Pallbearers were: Edwin Hegenbarth, Otto Windom, Roy Thompson, Otto Voie, Lawrence Cox and Clarence Verhulst.

People from away who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. Erling Ellingson and family of Elmhurst, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Morris Anderson of Stevens Point; Mrs. Nola Kuehl of Sun Prairie; Mrs. John Murat and Mrs. William Gilbert of Nekoosa; Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Anderson and family of Stevens Point; Robert Johnson of Wausau; Phillip Vangsness of Poynette; Clark Vangsness, Mrs. Robert Schneider and John Schendel, all of Madison; Mrs. Ottelia Johnson of Fairhope, Ala.; Mrs. Ray Gilbert of Moorhead, Minn.; Susanne Simmons of Fargo, N. D.; Mrs. A. E. Norson of Hitterdal, Minn.; Miss Mildred Norson of Mondovi; Mrs. Pearl Johnson of Milwaukee; Mrs. Andrew Johnson of Humbird; Mrs. M. Mohr of Eau Claire; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Quast of Milwaukee; Mrs. Dorothy O’Connor  of Stevens Point; Mr. and Mrs. Grant Herrick of Curtiss, Mrs. George Barker of Abbotsford, and relatives and friends from the Withee, Neillsville and Loyal areas.