----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 11/ /1949

GREENWOOD--J. E. JOHNSON DIES SUNDAY

John E. Johnson, 78, died of a heart attack shortly after noon yesterday, Nov. 28 , 1949 at his home about 4 miles east of here (Greenwood, Clark County).
 

Funeral services will be held a 2 p.m. Wednesday in the United Lutheran Church. The Rev. Theodore Nelson will officiate and burial will be in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Mr. Johnson was born in Sweden, March 7, 1871 and lived there until he was 16. He married Anna Johnson in Loyal on July 4, 1902. He had lived in his present home for the last 30 years.

Surviving Mr. Johnson besides his wife are a daughter, Mrs. Gerald (Ella) Jolivette, and a son, Delmond, both of Greenwood. He is also survived by four grandchildren and a brother, Oluf, in Greenwood, and a sister, Anna, living in California. Eight other brothers and sister still live in Sweden.

A sister, Mrs. Eugene McMahon, and a brother, Peter Johnson, who lived in this country, precede him in death.