Goldie Vivian Johnson

GOLDIE VIVIAN JOHNSON, 93, DIED THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2007 AT REGIONAL WEST MEDICAL CENTER. A MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD TUESDAY NOVEMBER 27 AT 10:00 AM AT ST.JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH, SCOTTSBLUFF, NE. INTERNMENT WILL BE IN GREENWOOD CEMENTARY, SIDNEY, NE AT A LATER DATE. GOLDIE WAS BORN OCTOBER 7, 1914 IN HARTINGTON, NE TO ALBERT AND LILLIAN (RASMUSSEN) JELINEK. SHE MOVED WITH HER FAMILY AT THE AGE OF 4 TO A FARM S.E. OF SIDNEY, NE. SHE AND HER BROTHERS, KENNETH AND DEWARD (DUDE) ATTENDED SCHOOL IN PEETZ, COLORADO. GOLDIE GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL IN 1933 AND ATTENDED BARNES BUSINESS COLLEGE IN DENVER, COLORADO FOR ONE YEAR. GOLDIE MARRIED LOUIS C. JOHNSON, MARCH 11 1939. CHERYL, THEIR ONLY DAUGHTER, WAS BORN AUGUST 29, 1944. GOLDIE WAS VERY ACITVE IN THE COMMUNITIES OF SIDNEY AND SCOTTSBLUFF. IN SIDNEY, SHE WORKED FOR MONTGOMERY WARDS, KEPT BOOKS FOR SEVERAL BUSINESSES AND SERVED AS EXECUTIVE SECRETARY FOR SELECTIVE SERVICE (DRAFT BOARD) FOR 13 YEARS. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND IN 1979, SHE HELPED FOUND THE SURVIVING SPOUSES ORGANIZATION IN SIDNEY. IN 1993, GOLDIE MOVED TO SCOTTSBLUFF, NE. IN 1995, SHE BECAME A FOSTER GRANDMOTHER AT WESTMOOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND WAS STILL ACTIVE UNTIL THE TIME OF HER DEATH. GOLDIE ESPECIALLY ENJOYED AN AFTERNOON OF CARDS WITH HER FRIENDS AND REMAINED AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE LUTHERAN MISSIONARY LEAGUE AT ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH. GOLDIE WAS A LIFETIME MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION AUXILLARY.GOLDIE (GRAMS) JOHNSON’S LIFE WILL BE CELEBRATED WITH WONDERFUL MEMORIES OF ALL WHO KNEW HER, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO WERE RECEIPIENTS OF HER THOUGHTFUL HANDMADE GIFTS. SUVIVORS INCLUDE, HER DAUGHTER, CHERYL SVOBODA, (2022 2ND AVE, SCOTTSBLUFF) GRANDDAUGHTERS, DARCY (TOM) JOHNSON OF COLORADO SPRINGS AND JULIE SVOBODA OF DENVER, CO. NIECES, PEGGY (DALLAS) LANGLEY OF SIDNEY, PATTY (LARRY) GORMAN SISTER-IN-LAW, VIOLA JELINEK OF KIMBALL AND HER DAUGHTERS JANET, JOAN AND DIANE. GREAT NEICES AND NEPHEWS, KRISTI LANGLEY AND KYLE LANGLEY AND FAMILY OF ARIZONA, JENNIFER AND JOSEPH GORMAN OF SIDNEY, ERIC SEIBERT AND FAMILY OF COLORADO. GOLDIE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, HUSBAND, BROTHERS, KENNETH AND DUDE, & SISTER-IN-LAW FLORENCE JELINEK, AND NIECE SHERRY LEE JELINEK.