This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#140188) Harrison C. Johnson <http://iagenweb.org/boards/allamakee/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=140188> AUTHOR: Diana Henry Die DATE: 1/7/2007 at 13:34:53 Surnames: JOHNSON,RALSTON,LEITZ,ORDWAY,OELBERG,SWEENEY,GELO,VAN GORDER,ENYART,JUVIK Harrison Johnson Harrison Charles “Harry” Johnson, 68, of Waukon died Friday, Sept. 1 at the VA Medical Center in Iowa City. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 4 at Martin Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Lynn Groe officiating. Burial was in Smithfield Cemetery with graveside military rites. He was born Nov. 8, 1920 near Forest Mills, rural Postville, to L.R.V. (LeRoy) and Ruth Ralston Johnson and attended Jefferson Township #8 school and two years at Waukon High School. He was in the Navy from 1944 to 1946 during WWII serving on the USS Stanley in the South Pacific. He operated Johnson’s Service Station and Store in Forest Mills, and for the last ten years had worked at Sweeney’s Village Farm and Home in Waukon. He was a member of the American Legion. Surviving are his ex-wife, Darlene Leitz, two sisters, Hazel Ordway and Mary Johnson, both of Yucca Valley, Ca.; three brothers, Levi Johnson of Sisters, Or., Milbourn Johnson of Waukon and Orville Johnson of Phoenix, Az.., and numerous nieces and nephews. Casket bearers were Harva Oelberg, Jan Sweeney, Art Gelo, Ray Van Gorder, Hartley Enyart Sr. and Bartin Juvik. Contributed by Janet Koozer Transcribed by Diana Henry Diedrich