Oscar Alfred Johnson (1892 - 1954)

Oscar Alfred Johnson ble født den 5 august 1892. Han døde i Wisconsin den 8 september 1954. Han var sønn av Carl Otto Johnson og Martha (Karlsdatter) Johnson. Oscar giftet seg den 25 juni 1921 med Ethel Leona Merwin f. 19 november 1896 i Lancaster, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA. Hun døde den 06 Mars 1958 i Rock County, Union Township, Wisconsin, USA. De hadde 3 barn:

1. Esther Elizabeth Johnson, f. 12 april 1922, Stoughton, Wisconsin USA. Gift med Donald Emerson Minett.
2. Donald Johnson, f. ca. 1931, han var bosatt i Jamestown, North Dakota.
3. Russell Allen Johnson, f. ca. 1927, d. 31 juli 2006, Dallas, Oregon.

Stående: Russell, Esther, Donald. Sittende: Ethel Merwin & Oscar Johnson

Oscar Alfred og Ethel Leona.

Dødsannonsen til Oscar Alfred Johnson i Stoughton Hub newspaper den 9 september 1954:

Oscar A. Johnson Passes Away Here

Oscar A. Johnson, 62, Rte. 3, Stoughton, passed away early Wednesday morning at the Stoughton Community hospital, following a lingering illness. Son of the late Carl and Martha Johnson, he was born in Stoughton August 6, 1892. He was educated in the Stoughton - Evansville area, and in 1921 he married the former Ethel Merwin of Boscobel at Rockfort, Ill.

He was a veteran of World War I and by trade he was a carpenter, which profession he followed most of his life. He was a member of the Cairns Victory Post number 57 of Madison.

Survivors include his wife: one daughter, Mrs Don E. Minett, Richland Center; two sons, Donald, Jamestown, ND and Russell, stationed with the army at Camp Kilmer, NJ.; two brothers, Emil of Oregon, and Arthur of Stoughton; two sisters, Mrs. R. H. Snyder, Dayton O., and Mrs. James McClane, Madison. Other survivors are six grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:45 at the Cummings-Edison-Olson Funeral Home. Rev. L. L. Nesvig, pastor of Our Savior's Lutheran church, will officiate. Burial will be in the family lot at Riverside cementry. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday. 1)

1) The 1900 census report.
September 9, 1954 Stoughton Hub newspaper.
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