OBITUARY: Ruth Edith Ella (Von Bergan) Johnson, 1910-1998, Mitchell Co., Iowa




                                Ruth Johnson

OSAGE, IOWA -- Ruth Johnson, 88, of Osage, died Wednesday (Dec. 2, 1998) at
the Mitchell County Regional Health Center, Osage.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Faith Lutheran Home,
Osage, with the Rev. Dennis Hanson officiating. Burial will be in the
St. Ansgar Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Champion Funeral Home,
702 State St., with the family receiving friends from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Ruth Edith Ella Johnson was born Aug. 5, 1910, near Otranto, in Mitchell
County, the daughter of John and Bertha (Stangohr) Von Bergan. She was
baptized and confirmed at First Lutheran Church, in St. Ansgar. Ruth
graduated from Otranto High School in 1928.

Ruth married Alvin Johnson on Oct. 14, 1930, at the Little Brown Church in
Nashua.  They farmed for 50 years on a farm north of Orchard. After the
death of her husband, Alvin, in 1983, she moved to Osage.

She is survived by one daughter, Doris Condon and her husband, Richard, of
Chandler, Arizona; two granddaughters, Doreen Wagner and her husband, Bill,
and their children, Megan, Katie, Andie and Julie, of Valley Center, Calif.;
and Annette Miller and children, Travis and Beth, of Olympia, Washington.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Alvin; two brothers;
and two sisters.

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(Originally published 4 Dec 1998; Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa)


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