Published in The Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, WA March 16, 2016
IN LOVING
MEMORY
June 5, 1922 - March 12, 2016
Carmen Johnson was called home on March 12, 2016. She died peacefully and quietly at Skagit Valley Hospital. She was 93 years young and lived a long and full life.
Born in Coamo, Puerto Rico, she and her sisters spent their younger years in Puerto Rico and New York.
During WWII, Carmen met and fell in love with Wally "Boot" Johnson, an Army soldier stationed in Puerto Rico. After the war, Wally was stationed on Middleton Island, Alaska where he was employed with the CAA (now known as the FAA). He joked that the isolation got to him so he wrote a letter of proposal to Carmen. She accepted.
Carmen traveled by herself across the country from New York to meet Wally in his home town of Olympia, WA. The two were married on her birthday in 1946. Carmen and Wally spent most of their married life in Alaska, where they raised three children together. Many of those years were on Woody Island's FAA station near Kodiak.
After Wally's retirement from the FAA the couple moved to Olympia, where they lived happily until Wally died in 1989.
Carmen then moved to Skagit County to be closer to her daughter and her family. She was a regular volunteer at the Burlington Public Library, and a devout member of St. Charles Catholic Church. She was an excellent example to her family and friends of how to lead a healthy, active life. Traveling was one of her favorite pastimes, and she was a voracious reader.
Though she is now departed, her memory lives on in the hearts of her family.
She was preceded in death by her beloved husband "Boot", with whom she is now joyfully reunited.
She is survived by her two sisters; Lillian (Roberto) Lluch, and Jo Port, along with her three children; Keith (Connie) Johnson, Eric (Linda) Johnson, and Donna (Dennis) Thomason, six grandchildren, five great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She will be laid to rest with her husband at Masonic Memorial Park in Olympia, WA, where her family will hold a private graveside service on Saturday, March 19th.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be made to either the Burlington Public Library, or St. Charles Catholic Church.
A special thank you to Kathy Cullup for her generosity in getting Mom to church and also thank you to the staff at Where The Heart Is, in Burlington, for their tender care during the last year and a half of her life.
Arrangements are under the care of Hulbush Funeral Home.
IN LOVING
MEMORY
June 5, 1922 - March 12, 2016
Carmen Johnson was called home on March 12, 2016. She died peacefully and quietly at Skagit Valley Hospital. She was 93 years young and lived a long and full life.
Born in Coamo, Puerto Rico, she and her sisters spent their younger years in Puerto Rico and New York.
During WWII, Carmen met and fell in love with Wally "Boot" Johnson, an Army soldier stationed in Puerto Rico. After the war, Wally was stationed on Middleton Island, Alaska where he was employed with the CAA (now known as the FAA). He joked that the isolation got to him so he wrote a letter of proposal to Carmen. She accepted.
Carmen traveled by herself across the country from New York to meet Wally in his home town of Olympia, WA. The two were married on her birthday in 1946. Carmen and Wally spent most of their married life in Alaska, where they raised three children together. Many of those years were on Woody Island's FAA station near Kodiak.
After Wally's retirement from the FAA the couple moved to Olympia, where they lived happily until Wally died in 1989.
Carmen then moved to Skagit County to be closer to her daughter and her family. She was a regular volunteer at the Burlington Public Library, and a devout member of St. Charles Catholic Church. She was an excellent example to her family and friends of how to lead a healthy, active life. Traveling was one of her favorite pastimes, and she was a voracious reader.
Though she is now departed, her memory lives on in the hearts of her family.
She was preceded in death by her beloved husband "Boot", with whom she is now joyfully reunited.
She is survived by her two sisters; Lillian (Roberto) Lluch, and Jo Port, along with her three children; Keith (Connie) Johnson, Eric (Linda) Johnson, and Donna (Dennis) Thomason, six grandchildren, five great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She will be laid to rest with her husband at Masonic Memorial Park in Olympia, WA, where her family will hold a private graveside service on Saturday, March 19th.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be made to either the Burlington Public Library, or St. Charles Catholic Church.
A special thank you to Kathy Cullup for her generosity in getting Mom to church and also thank you to the staff at Where The Heart Is, in Burlington, for their tender care during the last year and a half of her life.
Arrangements are under the care of Hulbush Funeral Home.
Published in The Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, WA March 16, 2016
IN LOVING
MEMORY
June 5, 1922 - March 12, 2016
Carmen Johnson was called home on March 12, 2016. She died peacefully and quietly at Skagit Valley Hospital. She was 93 years young and lived a long and full life.
Born in Coamo, Puerto Rico, she and her sisters spent their younger years in Puerto Rico and New York.
During WWII, Carmen met and fell in love with Wally "Boot" Johnson, an Army soldier stationed in Puerto Rico. After the war, Wally was stationed on Middleton Island, Alaska where he was employed with the CAA (now known as the FAA). He joked that the isolation got to him so he wrote a letter of proposal to Carmen. She accepted.
Carmen traveled by herself across the country from New York to meet Wally in his home town of Olympia, WA. The two were married on her birthday in 1946. Carmen and Wally spent most of their married life in Alaska, where they raised three children together. Many of those years were on Woody Island's FAA station near Kodiak.
After Wally's retirement from the FAA the couple moved to Olympia, where they lived happily until Wally died in 1989.
Carmen then moved to Skagit County to be closer to her daughter and her family. She was a regular volunteer at the Burlington Public Library, and a devout member of St. Charles Catholic Church. She was an excellent example to her family and friends of how to lead a healthy, active life. Traveling was one of her favorite pastimes, and she was a voracious reader.
Though she is now departed, her memory lives on in the hearts of her family.
She was preceded in death by her beloved husband "Boot", with whom she is now joyfully reunited.
She is survived by her two sisters; Lillian (Roberto) Lluch, and Jo Port, along with her three children; Keith (Connie) Johnson, Eric (Linda) Johnson, and Donna (Dennis) Thomason, six grandchildren, five great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She will be laid to rest with her husband at Masonic Memorial Park in Olympia, WA, where her family will hold a private graveside service on Saturday, March 19th.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be made to either the Burlington Public Library, or St. Charles Catholic Church.
A special thank you to Kathy Cullup for her generosity in getting Mom to church and also thank you to the staff at Where The Heart Is, in Burlington, for their tender care during the last year and a half of her life.
Arrangements are under the care of Hulbush Funeral Home.
IN LOVING
MEMORY
June 5, 1922 - March 12, 2016
Carmen Johnson was called home on March 12, 2016. She died peacefully and quietly at Skagit Valley Hospital. She was 93 years young and lived a long and full life.
Born in Coamo, Puerto Rico, she and her sisters spent their younger years in Puerto Rico and New York.
During WWII, Carmen met and fell in love with Wally "Boot" Johnson, an Army soldier stationed in Puerto Rico. After the war, Wally was stationed on Middleton Island, Alaska where he was employed with the CAA (now known as the FAA). He joked that the isolation got to him so he wrote a letter of proposal to Carmen. She accepted.
Carmen traveled by herself across the country from New York to meet Wally in his home town of Olympia, WA. The two were married on her birthday in 1946. Carmen and Wally spent most of their married life in Alaska, where they raised three children together. Many of those years were on Woody Island's FAA station near Kodiak.
After Wally's retirement from the FAA the couple moved to Olympia, where they lived happily until Wally died in 1989.
Carmen then moved to Skagit County to be closer to her daughter and her family. She was a regular volunteer at the Burlington Public Library, and a devout member of St. Charles Catholic Church. She was an excellent example to her family and friends of how to lead a healthy, active life. Traveling was one of her favorite pastimes, and she was a voracious reader.
Though she is now departed, her memory lives on in the hearts of her family.
She was preceded in death by her beloved husband "Boot", with whom she is now joyfully reunited.
She is survived by her two sisters; Lillian (Roberto) Lluch, and Jo Port, along with her three children; Keith (Connie) Johnson, Eric (Linda) Johnson, and Donna (Dennis) Thomason, six grandchildren, five great grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
She will be laid to rest with her husband at Masonic Memorial Park in Olympia, WA, where her family will hold a private graveside service on Saturday, March 19th.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be made to either the Burlington Public Library, or St. Charles Catholic Church.
A special thank you to Kathy Cullup for her generosity in getting Mom to church and also thank you to the staff at Where The Heart Is, in Burlington, for their tender care during the last year and a half of her life.
Arrangements are under the care of Hulbush Funeral Home.
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