Margaret Johnson

Margaret E. Johnson, age 76 of Buffalo, Wyoming died Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette, Wyoming.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 22 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Buffalo, Wyoming.

Visitation will be held at the Adams Funeral Home in Buffalo on Thursday from 1 to 9 p.m. and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.Graveside services and interment will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 25 at Calvary Cemetery in Sauk Centre.

Margaret Johnson was born July 20, 1928 in Lake Henry, Minnesota to Theodore and Rose Nathe. She received her teaching degree from St. Cloud State and then taught third and fourth grades in Ely, Sauk Centre and Alexandria. In 1956 she married David Johnson in Sauk Centre. After David graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Doctorate of Dentistry in 1962, they moved to Browerville where they practiced until 1969. They relocated to Alexandria where they practiced until 1978 and then moved to Buffalo, Wyoming where they owned and operated a dental clinic until they retired in 1996. Marge continued to reside in Buffalo until the time of her death.Marge enjoyed her garden and spending time with her friends and church family. She was an avid golfer, loved to fish and most of all loved her family and grandchildren.

Survivors include one son, Keith Johnson and his wife, Deb, of Gillette, Wyoming; one daughter, Julie Sama and her husband, Jose, of Seattle, Washington; three brothers, Ralph Nathe and his wife, Joanne, and Lambert Nathe and his wife, Verena, all of Sauk Centre, and Willy Nathe and his wife, Eileen, of Zimmerman; three sisters, Sally Zirbes of Sauk Centre, Kathy Weyland and her husband, Jerry, of Brooklyn Center and Arlene Schroeder and her husband, Pete, of Lino Lakes; and five grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Herman Nathe; and two sisters, Irene Rugloski and Mildred Zirbes.

Memorials may be made in Marge's memory to the American Cancer Society or the St. John's Foundation.