Sept. 6, 1913 - Jan. 18, 2008
MORRIS -- Freda Helene Johnson, 94, of Morris died Friday in Morris.
The service for will be at 11 a.m. Monday at First Lutheran Church in Morris. Burial will be at Summit Cemetery in Morris.
Visitation will be one hour prior to the service Monday at the church. Arrangements are with Pedersen Funeral Home in Morris. Memorials are preferred to the Courage Cottage in Morris.
She was born Sept. 6, 1913, in Golden Valley, N.D., to Frank and Pauline (Isaak) Brecht, She grew up on a ranch in Mercer County, N.D. She graduated in 1932 from Golden Valley. She graduated in 1936 from the Bismarck Hospital School of nursing. She worked at the Worthington hospital from 1936 to 1941.
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She married Conrad Johnson on Nov. 10, 1940. They moved to Iowa. In 1948, they moved to Morris. She worked as a nurse at the hospitals in Morris from 1949 to 1978. Conrad died in 2000. She moved in with her daughter, Connie. In February, she moved into the Courage Cottage in Morris.
She was a member of First Lutheran Church in Morris and of the Morris Gardening Club.
She is survived by one son: John (and Michel) Johnson of Alexandria; two daughters: Connie Johnson-Schaefer of Morris, and Linda (and Jim) Gay of Apex, N.C.; one sister: Doris Bantz of Urbandale, Iowa; and one granddaughter.
She was preceded in death by her husband, three brothers and two sisters.
