Elsie A. Johnson

Elsie A. Johnson, 101, died Oct. 23, 2004, at Hester Care Center, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson.

She was born Feb. 22, 1903, at New Ulm, Minn., the daughter of Joseph and Louise Hallich Brown. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a homemaker.

She belonged to Emanuel Lutheran Church and Women's Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.

On Sept. 20, 1926, she married Stanley L. Johnson at Minneapolis, Minn. He died Aug. 10, 1960.

Survivors include: three sons and their wives, Dennis and Bonnie, Gary and Janice, all of Hutchinson, and Allan and Suzie, Lake Arrowhead, Calif.; three daughters and their husbands, Lorraine and Buel Robinson, Englewood, Colo., Shirley and Jack Fast, Hutchinson, and Karen Paulsen, Minneapolis, Minn.; 17 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a daughter and son-in-law, Marilyn and John Hern, two brothers and four sisters.

Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Emanuel Lutheran Church, Hutchinson, with Pastors Tim Carey and Loren Mai presiding. Friends may call from 1 to 9 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, both at Elliott Mortuary, Hutchinson. Burial will be in Penwell-Gabel's Memorial Park Cemetery, Hutchinson.

Memorials may be sent to the church in care of the mortuary.

Hutchinson News[:ITAL:], October 26, 2004, Hutchinson, Kansas