KAREN L. JOHNSON

GALESBURG, Mich. - Karen Louise Johnson, 53, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died suddenly Friday, Feb. 7, 1992 at Borgess Medical Center, in Kalamazoo, Mich.

She was born in Coalfax, Ill. on Sept. 8, 1938, the daughter of Raymond G. and Helen L. Lawrence Jones. On Jan. 17, 1959 she married Martin C.V. Johnson in Cape Girardeau. He survives.

She had lived most of her life in Cape Girardeau, moving to Richland, Mich. in 1975 from Mt. Prospect, Ill. For 11 years, she had been employed in the personnel department of Jacobsen's Inc. in Kalamazoo.

Other survivors include: two sons, Martin C.V. Johnson, Jr. of Eden Prairie, Minn., and Robert G.J. Johnson of Battle Creek, Mich; a daughter, Julia L. Garnett of Jackson, Mich.; her mother, Helen Jones of Leesburg, Fla.; a brother, Robert G. Jones of Howie-In-The-Hills, Fla.; and four grandchildren.

Friends may call from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the Hoag-Switzer Funeral Home in Galesburg, Mich.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m., with Rev. Father Rick Stravers of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church officiating. The body will be cremated, with interment at Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau.

A memorial service is planned for Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau.