Ardath Genevieve Johnson was born in Quimby on January 8, 1902 to Albert James and Helen Baldwin Schaull. Her father ran a pharmacy and dry goods store there. She moved to Storm Lake around 1916 when her mother built the Shaul Apartment building where the Buena Vista college cafeteria now stands. Mrs. Johnson Is an alumnus of Buena Vista college. She was married in 1921 to Mahlon H. Johnson, principal of a nearby consolidated school. In 1930 they purchased a weekly newspaper, "Th e Buffalo County Republican " in Fountain City, Wisconsin. Six years after Mr. Johnson' s death in 1958, Mrs. Johnson continued editing and publishing the paper, doing all of the typesetting and printing and much of the reporting herself. After she sold the paper In 1965, she returned to Iowa where she continued to work as a linotype operator In Sac City, Humboldt, and for a short time at the Storm Lake Newspapers. She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Silverllnk Rebecca Lodges. In recent years Ardath had lived with her sister, Daphne at Methodist Manor. She passed away Monday, Sept. 8, 1980, at the age of 78 years. She is survived by her sister, and one son, Dwlght, New York; and four grandchildren.
Ardath Genevieve Johnson was born in Quimby on January 8, 1902 to Albert James and Helen Baldwin Schaull. Her father ran a pharmacy and dry goods store there. She moved to Storm Lake around 1916 when her mother built the Shaul Apartment building where the Buena Vista college cafeteria now stands. Mrs. Johnson Is an alumnus of Buena Vista college. She was married in 1921 to Mahlon H. Johnson, principal of a nearby consolidated school. In 1930 they purchased a weekly newspaper, "Th e Buffalo County Republican " in Fountain City, Wisconsin. Six years after Mr. Johnson' s death in 1958, Mrs. Johnson continued editing and publishing the paper, doing all of the typesetting and printing and much of the reporting herself. After she sold the paper In 1965, she returned to Iowa where she continued to work as a linotype operator In Sac City, Humboldt, and for a short time at the Storm Lake Newspapers. She was a member of the Eastern Star and the Silverllnk Rebecca Lodges. In recent years Ardath had lived with her sister, Daphne at Methodist Manor. She passed away Monday, Sept. 8, 1980, at the age of 78 years. She is survived by her sister, and one son, Dwlght, New York; and four grandchildren.
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