Edwin Johnson1917 - 1986
QM3 US Navy
Wife --- Marcella Johnson 1920 - 1971
Edwin & Marcella are buried in the Manning Cemetery.
Section F Row #2 south - north.
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Manning Monitor Businessman feature 1959
This week marks a highlight in business career of our "Businessman of the Week," when Eddie Johnson, 42, manager of the JM McDonald store observes his 20th year with that firm.
Eddie was born in Manning and has lived here all his life with the exception of 18 months' destroyer duty in the South Pacfic during World War II. He is a graduate of Manning high school and his first job was with the Ben Franklin store, being employed there from 1935 to 1939 when he joined the McDonald chain.
Starting as a member of the sales force, he assumed managerial duties in 1948, a position he holds today.
Eddie is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, charter Rotarian, assistant chief of the Manning fire department. American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star. His hobbies are square dancing and golf.
Besides his wife, Marcela, the family consists of three daughters, Barbara, in her first year of nurses' training in Des Moines; Sandra, a junior in high school and Kathy, a seventh grader. The family belongs to the Methodist church.
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Manning Monitor article------ 1944
In Quartermaster School
Just a note to let you know my new address.
I have been transferred to Quartermaster school here at Farragut. I would like to thank you
and the Legion for the Monitor. It's sure good to go back to the barracks in the evening and
enjoy reading the hometown paper and hearing where a lot of the fellows are.
I get to see Joe Stein over here at the school barber shop.
He is on duty two nights a week.
Sincerely yours, Edwin Johnson, S 2/c.
Manning Monitor articles ------ 1945
Aboard a Destroyer in the Pacific.
Recreation to Ed. Johnson used to be an afternoon round of golf on the Manning course.
Now it is an infrequent hour or two on an island beach, combating boredom with a ration of
half a dozen cans of beer.
The 27-year-old former assistant manager of the Brown-McDonald department store has
been in the Pacific since early this year, following graduation from navigation school at
Farragut, Idaho.
He observed his first year in the Navy by undergoing an air attack by Japan-based planes
off Nansei Shoto.
Johnson's wife and two children live at Manning.
WITH FOURTH FLEET ENTERING JAPAN BAY
ABOARD THE USS McDERMUT
Edwin Johnson, Q. M. 3-e, of Manning, witnessed the entrance of the fourth fleet into
Japan's Ominato bay on the tip of northern Honshu while serving aboard this destroyer.
The final phase of the war found the destroyer rescuing downed pilots off Okinawa and
aiding in the bombardment of the Japanese home islands.
With part of the ninth fleet she
took part in what was probably the last shore bombardment of the war ---- the shelling of
Suribachi.
Eddie Johnson Back At Old Job Here
Eddie Johnson, who was a member of the force at Brown McDonald's here prior to entering
service, resumed his old duties there this week, according to Vaughn Gensler, manager,
This week, Manager Gensler is spending his time at Omaha, St. Louis, Kansas City and
possibly other market centers, buying goods for the firm.
He left Saturday afternoon and
planned to be gone all week.
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EDDIE JOHNSON
SERVICES MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1986, 11:00 AM OHDE FUNERAL HOME, MANNING, IOWA
OFFICIATING PASTOR SUSHIL JOSEPH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, MANNING, IOWA
MUSIC "HOW GREAT THOU ART" "SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER" "GOD BE WITH YOU TIL WE MEET AGAIN"
CAROLYN MILLER, VOCALIST
CONNIE SIEPKER, ORGANIST
INTERMENT MANNING CITY CEMETERY, MANNING, IOWA
CASKETBEARERS: DOUG HICKS, DAN HICKS, CHAD HENKELMAN, TRAVIS MOORE, TIM KIRSCH, DOUG BOWER
HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: MALICK FOLEY, FRANK HANDLOS, HARVEY DALES, ED WIELAND, AL SCHULER, WALT LOEFFELHOLZ
MILITARY HONORS EMIL EWOLDT POST 22 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3517
MASONIC MEMORIAL SERVICE MANUAL LODGE 450 AF & AM, MANNING SUNDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1986, 7:30 PM OHDE
FUNERAL HOME, MANNING, IOWA
THE FAMILY WISHES TO EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE FOR YOUR KINDNESS EVIDENCED IN
THOUGHT, WORD, AND DEED, AND INVITES YOU TO JOIN THEM FOR LUNCH AND FELLOWSHIP AT THE VFW HALL IN MANNING FOLLOWING THE COMMITTAL SERVICE
EDWIN
"EDDIE" JOHNSON
Eddie Johnson was born August 21, 1917, in Manning, Iowa. He attended
Manning schools and was graduated from Manning High School in 1935.
On November 5, 1939, Eddie was united in marriage with Marcella
Wiese. That same year Eddie became one of the first employees of the new
Brown-McDonald Company store in Manning. He worked there until 1944 when he
left for military duty during World War II with the United States Navy. He
served with the navy until 1946 and then returned to Manning and to his job at
McDonald's store. In 1948 he became the manager. The store became known as the
J M. McDonald Company in the early 1950s and Eddie served as manager of the store
until he purchased the business in 1964. The grand opening of Johnson's
Department Store was held in August of that year.
Eddie's first wife, Marcella, died in 1971 following a long
illness. On October 20, 1972, Eddie was united in marriage with Irene O'Herron of Carroll. They made their home in Carroll; Eddie
continued to operate the store in Manning. He retired and sold the business in the early 1980s.
Eddie was active in church and community affairs. He was a
member of the United Methodist Church in Manning and served in many church
offices. He was a member of Manual Lodge 450 AF & AM, of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, of the American Legion, of the Manning Rotary Club, and of the
Manning Chamber of Commerce. He served for many years as a member of the
Manning Volunteer Fire Department and assisted in the establishment and
operation of the fire department rescue unit.
Eddie suffered a heart attack on Friday morning, November 7,
1986, and died later that day at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines,
Iowa, at the age of 69 years, 2 months, and 17 days.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Zada Johnson and by his first wife, Marcella.
Eddie is survived by his wife, Irene O'Herron Johnson, of
Carroll; by three children: Barbara Graham, of Manning; Sandi Sigler, of
Burdick, Kansas; and Kathy Moore, of Kansas City, Missouri; by three
step-children: James O'Herron, of Omaha; Ronald O'Herron, of Wichita, Kansas; and Mari Polking, of Pella,
Iowa; by 14 grandchildren; by 11 step-grandchildren; by 4 great-grandchildren;
by 5 step-great-grandchildren; by one sister, Minnie Dales, of Manning; by his
mother-in-law, Elsa Wiese, of Manilla; by two brothers-in-law, Dewey Wiese, of
Manilla and Milford Wiese, of Manning; by one sister-in-law, Donna Hargens, of
Manilla; and by nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.