Funeral mass for 96-year-old Anna Johanek of Mountain Lake, Minnesota will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday morning, October 17, 2014, at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Windom, Minnesota. The church is located at 532 17th Street.
Interment will be in Good Shepherd Catholic Church Cemetery in Jackson, Minnesota.
Father Russell Scepaniak will be the officiant.
Visitation is today (Thursday, October 16, 2014), from 5 p.m. 8 p.m. at Sturm Funeral Home-Mountain Lake, located at 420 10th Street North. Visitation will continue at the church the day of the funeral from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Anna Johanek passed away on Monday, October 13, 2014, in Mountain Lake.
Anna Irene (Zahorsky) Johanek was born on September 12, 1918 in Lakefield, Minnesota, the daughter of Michael and Antonia (Soukup) Zahorshy. She never missed a day of school throughout her years of attendance. She grew up on the family farm helping with chores, herding cattle and taking care of her younger sisters. It was never dull with six sisters who unfortunately lost their mother at the young age of 43.
Anna met and began dating Stanley William Johanek. They married on February 22, 1938. They farmed north of Jackson until 1947, when they purchased a farm south of Mountain Lake. They made a great farm team, also raising many cattle, cage chickens, ducks and geese.
Together they enjoyed playing cards, traveling on plane and bus trips, and entertaining at their cabin on Fish Lake in rural Windom. Anna enjoyed belonging to the Red Hatters, was an awesome seamstress, baker, cook and gardener with a real green thumb; her garden and flowers were her passion. She was a devout member of the Catholic Church.
Survivors include a daughter, Pat (Larry) Boots of Worthington Minnesota; grandsons, Lonny (Nancy) Johnson of Worthington and Lane (Kathy) Johnson of Eden Prairie Minnesota; granddaughter, Lisa (Dan) Wermuth of Mesa, Arizona; step-grandson, Todd (Janelle) Boots of Tea, South Dakota; great-grandchildren, Carly, Patrick and Annabelle Johnson and Aaron, Alyssa, Alexa, Ashlyn, Ambria, Abel and Abigail Wermuth; step-great-grandchildren, Anthony Wolf, Haeli Wolf,and Allison Boots; great-great-grandsons, Kayden Johnson, Kasen Johnson, and Jaxon Nienkerk; sisters, Bernadine Hennings of Lake Wilson Minnesota, Cecilia Domino of Mesa and Loretta Domino of Coon Rapids Minnesota; many nieces and nephews; three God-daughters and a lot of dear friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Stanley in 2002 and sisters, Agnes Zahorksy, Mary Zahradnik, Margaret Zahradnik, and Maxine Schaffer.