Obit: Johnson, Morten (1861 - 1956)

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Surnames: JOHNSON VINE

----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection, Marshfield News Herald 06/ /1956

Johnson, Morten (1861 - 1956)

GREENWOOD--Final rites for Morten Johnson, 94-year-old Greenwood, Clark County pioneer, have been set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Stabnow Funeral Home here. The Rev. Charles Koch, pastor of the West Side and Zion Evangelical and Reformed Churches, will officiate and burial will follow in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home, where the body will lie in state until time of services.

Mr. Johnson, who was active for a man of his years, died of a heart attack Sunday morning, June 10, 1956, at his farm home Northeast of Greenwood, which he established in 1894. He lived there with his unmarried son, Kristian, who he assisted with the farming and housekeeping chores.

The nonagenarian was born July 8, 1861, in Norway. After his marriage there, he and his wife came to the United States in 1884, living for one year in Minnesota, before beginning farming in the Greenwood area. During logging seasons he worked in the northern Wisconsin woods. His wife, Kari, died in 1929.

Besides his son Kris, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. Earnest (Randine) Vine, Elk River, Idaho, and another son, Sam, Logan, Mont., and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. No brothers or sisters survive.