1942
Linda
2024
Linda Johnson
June 26, 1942 — April 24, 2024
Linda Lee Johnson passed away at her home on April 24, 2024, while in hospice care. She was born to Fred and Alice Lee in Mondovi on June 26, 1942. She attended Mondovi schools, experiencing Punk Nelson’s swimming pool, surviving Clara Conger’s eighth grade English class, and Keith Lagasse’s high school band. She graduated from UW-Eau Claire in 1964 and taught music in Mercer and Pepin, Wisconsin and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
She married David Johnson in 1967 and they built a house in the woods in Drammen township in Eau Claire County. In their woods she planted ginseng and enjoyed walks there to study the slow growing plants and rejoice in any new plants that seeded themselves and could be then called wild ginseng. She was one of two members of the Sundberg Hill Ski Club, and also participated in the American Birkebeiner Kortelopet ski race in 1975. She also played the organ at Drammen and Pleasant Valley Lutheran churches where she was known to “hurry up” the hymns.
She enjoyed vacations with the family on Upper Eau Claire Lake, where she liked to fish with David and her son, Kirk. She enjoyed canoeing with her daughters, Pat and Siggy on the Bois Brule River nearby, and sometimes she even made it up to the Gunflint Trail.
She made a couple of trips to Europe and the Caribbean and many trips to Mexico to visit her sister Nancy, who lived in Guadalajara. Linda also visited Puerto Vallarta before there was a road. She loved the Grand Tetons and would return there many summers to stay at Dornans Cabins on the Snake River. In the winter she would return to Mexico for extended visits. She enjoyed the Mexican people, the Bay of Banderas and staying at Casa Del Puente in Old Town Puerto Vallarta.
Linda retired from the U.S. Postal Service in Eau Claire as a rural mail carrier where they paid her to exercise, deliver mail, and avoid snowbanks.
Preceded in death by her parents Fred and Alice Lee, niece Mary Welton, nephew Eric Nixdorf and her husband David Johnson. She is survived by her children Patricia Chambers (Greg), Signe Johnson (Tim), Kirk Johnson; granddaughters Justine and Taylor Johnson, Hannah and Elayna Chambers; her sister Nancy Lee Valle and several beloved nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
A service with special music in honor of Linda’s memory will be scheduled for early fall at Drammen Lutheran Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to donor’s choice in Linda’s memory.
The family is grateful for the excellent care provided to Linda by her Mayo Health System hospice care team.
Cremation Society of Wisconsin, Altoona is assisting the family. Online condolences may be shared at www.cremationsociety-wi.com .
She married David Johnson in 1967 and they built a house in the woods in Drammen township in Eau Claire County. In their woods she planted ginseng and enjoyed walks there to study the slow growing plants and rejoice in any new plants that seeded themselves and could be then called wild ginseng. She was one of two members of the Sundberg Hill Ski Club, and also participated in the American Birkebeiner Kortelopet ski race in 1975. She also played the organ at Drammen and Pleasant Valley Lutheran churches where she was known to “hurry up” the hymns.
She enjoyed vacations with the family on Upper Eau Claire Lake, where she liked to fish with David and her son, Kirk. She enjoyed canoeing with her daughters, Pat and Siggy on the Bois Brule River nearby, and sometimes she even made it up to the Gunflint Trail.
She made a couple of trips to Europe and the Caribbean and many trips to Mexico to visit her sister Nancy, who lived in Guadalajara. Linda also visited Puerto Vallarta before there was a road. She loved the Grand Tetons and would return there many summers to stay at Dornans Cabins on the Snake River. In the winter she would return to Mexico for extended visits. She enjoyed the Mexican people, the Bay of Banderas and staying at Casa Del Puente in Old Town Puerto Vallarta.
Linda retired from the U.S. Postal Service in Eau Claire as a rural mail carrier where they paid her to exercise, deliver mail, and avoid snowbanks.
Preceded in death by her parents Fred and Alice Lee, niece Mary Welton, nephew Eric Nixdorf and her husband David Johnson. She is survived by her children Patricia Chambers (Greg), Signe Johnson (Tim), Kirk Johnson; granddaughters Justine and Taylor Johnson, Hannah and Elayna Chambers; her sister Nancy Lee Valle and several beloved nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
A service with special music in honor of Linda’s memory will be scheduled for early fall at Drammen Lutheran Church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to donor’s choice in Linda’s memory.
The family is grateful for the excellent care provided to Linda by her Mayo Health System hospice care team.
Cremation Society of Wisconsin, Altoona is assisting the family. Online condolences may be shared at www.cremationsociety-wi.com .
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