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Joan Vivian Van Buskirk Johnson
September 24, 1945 – January 13, 2022

The daughter of a farmer and a schoolteacher, Joan grew up in Lanark, a small farming town in Northwestern Illinois and always considered herself a “farmgirl.” Her childhood education focused particularly on music and voice, so much so that one of her teachers commented that “she was the best conductor in English class.”

After high school, she worked as a camp nurse in …
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September 24th, 1945
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Passed away

January 13th, 2022
Golden, CO

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