Funeral services for Darwin F. Johnson will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010 at McWilliams Family Funeral Home in Gallatin. Burial will be in the Cope Cemetery at Winston, under the direction of Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home of Trenton.
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General visitation will begin after 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 at the McWilliams Family Funeral Home. A visitation is scheduled from noon until service time.
Mr. Johnson, an 86-year-old resident of Gallatin, died at 7:04 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 at Benchmark Nursing Home in Raytown.
Mr. Johnson was born on May 8, 1924 in Ripey, IA the son of Glen and Missouri Hibbert Johnson. He was married on Dec. 28, 1946 in Adel, IA to Mary Moss, who survives of the home. They farmed and raised cattle in Iowa until moving to Breckenridge in 1969 and then to Maysville in 1971. He retired in August 1971 and they moved to Lake Viking.
He was a devout Christian all his life.
Surviving relatives include his wife, Mary of the home at Lake Viking; two sons, William “Bill” Johnson and his wife, Ruth, of Kirksville and Kenny Johnson and his wife, Ruby, of Blue Springs; a daughter Marilyn Street and her husband, Stanley, of Gallatin; a sister, Marjorie Weeda and her husband, Allen, of Osceola, IA; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Those preceding him in death include his parents; a sister, Zelda Patten; and a brother, Delbert Johnson.