Adele Johnson

Adele Johnson died June 14, 2019 in Bismarck, ND at the age of 97. She was born and raised in Minnesota. In 1937 she was crowned Minnesota Health Queen at the state fair. She studied nursing at St. Barnabus Hospital in Minneapolis and married her husband, Dr. Kenneth J. Johnson, on the day of her graduation. Her husband soon shipped out to the Pacific and while he was serving overseas Adele worked as a nurse in Minneapolis, Colorado Springs, and later Honolulu where she joined her husband.

After the war they lived in Bemidji, MN, for two years before moving to Bismarck during the first oil boom in the early 1950s when her husband started working at Quain & Ramstad Clinic.

In addition to raising four children, she was active in serving her church and community. She taught Sunday School and served as a deacon in her church. She loved music and played the piano well and participated in many community activities, including Symphony League and Thursday Music Club. Adele was a charter member of the Bismarck Hospital Guild and participated in the 6^th District Medical Auxilary. She and her husband were charter members of the Bismarck-Mandan Birding Club and for twenty years she accompanied her husband on annual birding censuses for the U.S. Government Service, which included five routes in N.D. and five routes in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

After her children went away to college Adele renewed her nursing license and worked at Bismarck Hospital (now Sanford) from 1970-1980. Throughout the years she and her family of six tent-camped, visiting all the national parks and monuments in the continental United States. Adele and Ken enjoyed their retirement years by traveling during the winter months to Texas and Arizona.

In her later years Adele enjoyed living at Touchmark in Bismarck and shared her musical abilities with other senior citizens by playing piano. She also led morning devotions.

Married for sixty-seven years, she was preceded in death by her husband in May 2012. Survivors include four children, four grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.