Evelyn
Janette Johnson, 89
Eden
Prairie - Evelyn Janette Johnson 89, of Eden
Prairie, formerly of Thief River Falls, died on
Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003 at the Castle Ridge Care
Center in Eden Prairie.
Funeral
services will be held today at 11am in Johnson
Green Funeral Chapel in Thief River Falls, with
Reverend Wesley Langaas Officiating. Burial will be
held in the Greenwood Cemetery at Thief River
Falls.
Visitation
will be held one hour prior to services at the
Funeral Home.
Evelyn
Janette Lawrence was born on Oct., 6, 1914 in York
Township, Fillmore County, Minnesota daughter of
the late Lee and Julia (Hovey) Lawrence. She was
baptized and confirmed at LeRoy Lutheran Church,
LeRoy, and had also spent childhood years near
Harmony. In 1933 the family moved to a farm at
Badger.
In
1936 Evelyn married Carl M. Johnson and they
resided at his family farm, homesteaded by his
parents in Polonia Township, near Greenbush. During
the next 40 years they farmed and she was actively
involved as a member in the Pauli Lutheran Church's
Ladies Aid and WMF.
Retiring
from farming in 1976, Carl and Evelyn moved into
Thief River Falls, and from 1979 to 1989 they spent
the winter months in Apache Junction, and Mesa,
Ariz.
Carl
died in Dec. 21, 1994, and Evelyn moved to Edina,
the following spring to be near her family. She was
a resident at Castle Ridge Care Center in Eden
Prairie, at the time of her death.
Evelyn
is survived by five Children: Kay (Curt) Melby of
Palm Desert, Calif.; Marlin (Kathy) Johnson of St.
Francis; Delaine (Carol) Johnson of Grand Forks,
N.D.; Jan Johnson of Eden Prairie, and Erin
(Dwight) Porter of Gravois Mill, Mo.: 10
grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, three
step great-grandchildren and one step great-great
grandchild.
She
is preceded in death by her parents: Lee in 1942
and Julia in 1987; her husband: Carl in 1994;
brother Kenneth in 1974 and sister Glenice in 1984.
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