Meade County, SD Obituaries.....Johnson, Walter Herbert July 24, 1924
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The Sturgis Tribune
Walter H.Johnson.former Sturgis businessman passed away Sunday in a Rapid City 
hospital.Solemn Requiem Mass was offered Wednesday morning,July 27,at the 
Cathederal of the Immaculate Conception. Burial was in Mount Calvary cemetery 
by the Campbell Funeral Home.Rosary services were held on Tuesday evening.  
Born at Sturgis,Johnson began his highly successful business career as a clerk 
in the Commercial National Bank. In the space of twenty years, he had advanced 
his position to that of executive vice president. In 1929 he assumed the 
duties of president of the First National Bank of Rapid City,which position he 
maintained for ten years. Early in the year of 1940 he purchased the Buell 
Real Estate Insurance Agency,which shortly became the Walter H. Johnson Real 
Estate. A member of the Rotary, he served as secretary of the Sturgis chapter 
of which he was a charter member and as president of the Rapid City chapter.He 
was also a member of the Elks Lodge,service officer of the American Legion,on 
the Rapid City Commission.from 1941-44,and director of their Chamber of 
Commerce for nine years.He had been treasurer of the Mount Rushmore National 
Memorial Society of the Black Hills since 1942, and a United States 
Commissioner until 1954. He was a trustee of the Blessed Sacrament parish at 
the time of his death. While serving with the army during the first world 
war,he was married to Elizabeth Kelley at Houston,Texas.She preceded him in 
death in 1952. His survivors include a daughter,Louise Johnson of New York 
City; his mother Mrs.Irving Johnson;two sisters Mrs. Harry Blair and Mrs. 
Marion Middlebrook; two brothers Arthur and Clarence,all of Sturgis;and one 
brother,morris of Richmond,California.

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