Joyce Johnson

Joyce Johnson, age 87 of Northfield, passed away Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at the Northfield Care Center. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. at the Northfield Retirement Chapel with the Reverend Diane Goulson, officiating. Interment will take place in the Oaklawn Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Friday, July 18th. from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Bierman Funeral Home in Northfield and on Saturday one hour prior to the service at the Retirement Center.

Joyce Christine Johnson was born October 17, 1920 in Webster County, Iowa, daughter of Oscar and Effie (Bodell) Anderson. Upon graduation from Burnside High School she attended business school in Des Moines, IA. Following her marriage to her high school sweet heart, Norman Alexander Johnson, they farmed in the Calendar, IA area where their 3 daughters were born.

In 1957 they moved to Northfield, MN where Joyce worked as a secretary first at the St Olaf College Health Center and later at Carleton College. She was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church and a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.

Joyce is survived by two daughters, Anne Larson of St Paul, Susan (Dave) Stoddard of Ely; five grandchildren, Amy (Karl) Geisler of St Paul, Jeff (Diane) Stoddard of Grand Marais, MN, Donna (Tracy) Anfinson and Teresa (Dale) Dexter of Ft Lupton, CO, and Alex(Valerie Hendrickson) Rickman of Longmont, CO; 9 great grandchildren; sisters Martha Lundgren of Burnside, IA, and Mary Linder of Park Rapids, MN. She was preceded in death by her husband Norman; daughter Norma Rickman; grandson Matthew Larson; her parents; sisters Geraldine and Harriett; brothers Don, Allison, and Jonathon.

Funeral Arrangements are by the Bierman Funeral Home of Northfield.