Obituary - Normajane Johnson

Wednesday, December 06, 2006
THE JUNEAU EMPIRE

Longtime Juneau resident Normajane Johnson, 89, died Nov. 18, 2006, at the Pioneer's Home where she had been a resident for three years.

Johnson was born Oct. 11, 1917, in Lewiston, Idaho, to L.A. and Rose Porter. She attended schools in the Lewiston area, and in 1943 came to Juneau to work in the Baranof Hotel.

In May 1945, she married J. Wayne Johnson, and they spent their honeymoon commercial fishing. After a season of commercial fishing, they purchased the City Dry Cleaners on South Franklin Street, which they successfully operated until the mid-1970s.

She was a charter member of the Juneau Soroptimist Club and was active in the Christian Science Church for many years, serving as a reader and as an organist. Family members said her great love was boating on the Normajane, and hunting and fishing, which she did with her husband for many years.

Johnson, of Lynden, Wash.; granddaughter, Eveonne Ames and her husband, Daniel, of Portland, Ore.; grandson, Jordan Johnson, of Lynden; two great-grandchildren; a niece; nephews; and cousins, Bill and Jean Overstreet, of Juneau.

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