GERMAYNE I.  JOHNSON , 90, of Sutherland, Iowa, passed away Monday afternoon, February 25, 2019 in the Heartland Care Center in Marcus, Iowa.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 2nd, at 10:30 a.m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Cherokee, Iowa. Pastor Jean Morse will officiate. Burial will be in the Cherokee Memory Gardens at a later date. There will be a family prayer service at 10:15 a.m. at the church on Saturday. Visitation will be on Friday from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. with the family present from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com

Germayne, the daughter of Alta Watson was born on July 15, 1928 at Menno, South Dakota. She graduated from Cleghorn High school in 1946. Following her graduation she had worked as a telephone operator for Bell Telephone in Cherokee and also for Sioux Valley Memorial Hospital in the Kitchen and Housekeeping Department for a few years.

Germayne was married to Orville "Dick" Johnson on November 14, 1952 at her parents home on a farm near Cleghorn. She had lived in the Cherokee area most of her life, moving to Sutherland in 1985. She had made her home at the Independent Living "Willoway Complex" in Sutherland since 2009. She had been a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church since 1950.

Germayne enjoyed sewing quilt tops for the churches, crocheting, embroidering, putting puzzles together, dancing with her husband in their early years, genealogy, Johnson family reunions, and adult pencil coloring.

She was preceded in death by her mother and step-father Alta and Edward Erickson, her husband Orville "Dick" Johnson on April 24, 2015, several brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.

She is survived by her three children; Dean (Barb) Johnson of Merrill, Iowa; Dale Johnson of Meriden, Iowa; Darla (Mike) Negus of Sutherland, Iowa; 5 grandchildren; Nick (Sandra) Johnson and children McKinley and Syler; Pat (Brenda) Johnson and children Anthony & Mark; Mike Johnson; Trista (Wayne) King Jr. and children DeLanie & Daelyn; Jamie (Brittany) Negus and  children Jaxson & Bentlee; one brother-in-law: Earl Dean (Elaine) Johnson of Brainerd, Minnesota; four sisters-in-law Carole Johnson of Osceola, Iowa, Jeannie Johnson of Gladstone, Missouri, Lisa Jarvis of Florida, Shirley Erickson of Des Moines, Iowa; nieces, nephews, great and great great nieces and nephews, cousins including Mary (Don) Minten of Alton, Iowa, and many friends.