Pastor Johnson

Pastor Roberta ?Bobbie? Ann Johnson, 67, Brainerd, died Friday, May 28 at the Greater Staples Care Center. Funeral services will be Wednesday, June 2, 2 p.m., at Trinity Lutheran Church in Brainerd, with Reverend David Holte officiating, assisted by Pastor Cheryl Berg, of Huntington Station, Long Island, New York and Pastor Sherry Billberg, of Wausau, Wisconsin. Interment will be at Mount Talampais Cemetery in San Rafael, California. Friends may visit Tuesday, June 1, 6-8 p.m., at Brenny Funeral Chapel in Baxter, and one hour prior to services on Wednesday.
Roberta Ann Johnson was born September 18, 1936, in Brainerd, to Ellwood and Evangeline (Ylinen) Johnson. The family moved to California in 1942. Roberta graduated from Talampais Union High School, and then from California Lutheran College in 1969, with a BA in English and theater. She moved to the Fargo-Moorhead area, and worked with youth at Faith, First, and Trinity Lutheran churches. She became a student at Luther Theological Seminary, and earned her Master of Divinity Degree in May of 1985. She was ordained at United Lutheran Church in Grand Forks on June 9, 1985. She served as Associate Pastor in San Antonio, Texas prior to becoming Pastor of Grace Lutheran and Our Savior?s Lutheran Churches in Grygla. She retired and returned to Brainerd in 1999.

Roberta is survived by her stepmother, Nadine Johnson, of Weaverville, CA; cousins Brian (Kay) Johnson and family, of Brainerd, Gary (Marlene) Johnson and family, of Alpena, MI, and Doris Peterson (Clifford) Holtz, of Brainerd; and many other cousins. Her parents preceded her in death.