Helga L BYE

Notes:

In the 1903 Fergus Falls city directory, she was Miss Hilga L Bye and boarded with her parents at 702 Cascade Street S.

Buried:
buried with Gustave

Helga married Gustave JOHNSON on 19 Jun 1907 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Gustave (son of Carl Henrik Johannessen (Charles) JOHNSON and Mary Christine Marie BJERTNESS) was born on 22 Jan 1884 in Minnesota; died on 25 Aug 1963 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 29 Aug 1963 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1910-18396
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1910-MN-009338

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2005-MN-037412
• Occupation: Lutheran pastor

Notes:

Of Pelican Rapids at the time of his father’s death in 1963.

By 1970, he was Bishop Cecil Johnson, bishop of the Northern Minnesota District of the ALC.

His obit, from Find A Grave:

The Rev. Cecil M. Johnson, 87, Eventide Lutheran Home, Moorhead, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005, in the nursing home.

Mr. Johnson was born Nov. 24, 1918, in Minot, N.D., where he grew up and graduated from high school in 1935. In 1940, he earned an education degree from Minot State University. From 1940 to 1941, he taught high school in Zahl, N.D. From 1941 to 1943, he worked for Lockheed Aircraft, Los Angeles. On Dec. 24, 1941, he married Eleanor Granstrom in Appam, N.D. He served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1943 to 1946. He graduated from Luther Seminary, St. Paul. From 1949 to 1956, he served at a four-point parish in Starkweather, N.D. He then served at a two-point parish in Pelican Rapids, Minn., until 1969. He received an honorary doctorate from Concordia College in 1969. From 1969 to 1981, he served as district president (bishop) of the northern Minnesota district of the American Lutheran Church. He worked for Oak Grove (Minn.) Lutheran High School from 1981 until his retirement in 1983. She died in 2004.

He is survived by a son, The Rev. Timothy (Susan), Anoka, Minn.; two daughters, Kathryn Benson, Moorhead, Sita (Norman) Johnson, Richfield, Minn.; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Visitation: Monday from 5 to 7 in Wright Funeral Home, Moorhead, and Tuesday from 10 to 11 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Moorhead.

Funeral: Tuesday at 11 in the church.

Died:
Eventide Lutheran Home, a nursing home

Cecil married Eleanor Delphine GRANSTROM on 24 Dec 1941 in Williams County, North Dakota. Eleanor was born on 18 Dec 1917 in North Dakota; died on 10 Oct 2004 in Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Oct 2004 in Prairie Home Cemetery, Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]