Judith Lenore (Nora) JOHNSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1968-MN-007084

Notes:

Still living at home in the 1910 census. Living with her widowed mother in the 1920 census. Judith is a clerk in a dry goods store.

In the 1930 census she is the widow Judith L. Moe living with her mother and daughter at 323 Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls.

In the 1941/42 Fergus Falls city directory, as the widow of Elias, she is Judith L. living at 116 Bancroft Avenue East.

She was the informant for Elias’s death certificate.

According to her obit, she was a cashier at the J. C. Penney store for many years.

Referred to as Judith L in her daughter’s obit.

Buried:
apparently as Judith Moe

Judith married Robert S MOE on 29 Jun 1920. Robert (son of Paul MOE and Augusta Maud OLSON) was born on 30 Jun 1893 in Hanska, Brown County, Minnesota; died on 24 May 1929 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 27 May 1929 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married Elias PEDERSON on 5 Sep 1933 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Elias (son of Peder PEDERSON and Anna ERICKSON) was born on 14 Jun 1865 in Namdalen, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 25 Oct 1939 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 28 Oct 1939 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2009-MN-026275

Notes:

Born Edith Marilynn.

In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, she was Marilynn Moe, high school student, living at 116 Bancroft Avenue East. In the 1941/42 Fergus Falls city directory, she is E. Marilynn Moe, living with her mother at 116 Bancroft Avenue East.

Her obit:

Marilynn M. Lee, 86, of Woodbury, Minn., and formerly of Fergus Falls, died Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, at the Woodwinds Hospital in Woodbury.

She was born March 21, 1923, in Fergus Falls, the daughter of Robert S. and Judith L. (Johnson) Moe. She grew up in Fergus Falls, graduating from high school in 1941. She attended the University of Minnesota, receiving her B.S. in 1949, and her Masters in Social Work in 1951.

On Dec. 28, 1950, she married Owen M. Lee at Zion Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls.

Marilynn was employed with the Wilder Foundation in St. Paul from 1951 to 1988 as a social worker. She was serving as Vice-president and Division Director of Children’s and Family Services at the time of her retirement in 1988.

During World War II she held a technical position with the FBI in Washington, D.C., for three years.

She was formerly a member of the National Association of Social Workers.

Marilynn enjoyed playing piano, music, reading, and playing golf in her younger years. She especially enjoyed entertaining friends and relatives at their home on Lake Superior, near Lutsen, Minn.

Survivors include her husband, Owen M. Lee of Woodbury; a stepbrother, Luther Pederson; two stepsisters-in-law, Marian Pederson and Margret Pederson; 10 nephews and nieces; and many grandnieces and nephews.

Preceding her in death were her parents, Robert and Judith Moe; her stepfather, Rev. Elias Pederson; her grandparents: Charles and Mary Johnson, and Paul and Marie Moe; two stepbrothers, Reuben Pederson and Morton Pederson; and a stepsister, Henrietta Pederson Bye.

Memorial Service: 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at Zion Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls
Clergy: Rev. Marv Abrahamson
Interment: Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls
Funeral home: Olson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls

Birth:
Fergus Falls

Died:
Woodwinds Hospital, Woodbury

Marilynn married Owen M LEE on 28 Dec 1950 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]