Frances Marilyn Johnson

Frances Marilyn (Hunt) Johnson, 89 of West Lafayette and formerly of Boswell, passed away peacefully with her family by her side on 5 August 2022.

She was born 18 May 1933 in Warren County, Indiana to Earl and Elizabeth (Eberhardt) Hunt.

Marilyn graduated from Boswell High School in 1951. She attended Purdue University and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Education in 1956.  She completed a Master’s Degree in Education from Harvard University in 1959.  Marilyn taught primary school in Ohio and Indiana, including at Morton Elementary School in West Lafayette.

In 1960, she married Russell R. Johnson and they remained married for 62 years.  In 1961, Marilyn gave birth to a daughter, Laurel Lee and in 1964 a son, Mark Hunt.  One of her greatest joys was making a loving home for her family.

Marilyn was a member of the Boswell First United Methodist Church.  She served on many committees at the church including children’s programs, funeral dinners, and various weekly prayer groups.

Later, she served as a board member of the Boswell Public Library and subsequently became the Librarian in 1990.  In 1992, she was able to secure increased funding for the library from Grant Township and supplemented that with a capital campaign that allowed for the remodeling and expansion of the original 1910 Carnegie library building.  Marilyn retired from the full-time role as librarian in 2000.

After retiring, she enjoyed active involvement in the lives of her grandchildren Anna (Strasburger) Musser, husband Brock, Michael Strasburger wife Jessica, and four great grandchildren, Rhett, Miles and Sam Musser and Charlotte Strasburger, with a fifth Strasburger great grandchild on the way.

Marilyn is survived by her husband, her daughter Laurel Strasburger (Roger), West Lafayette, her son Mark Johnson (Anita), Raleigh, North Carolina, her grandchildren and great grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her parents and sister Marjorie Edmonds.

Visitation will be from 10:00 am until the time of the memorial service at 11:00 am on Thursday, August 11, 2022, at Soller-Baker West Lafayette Chapel, 1184 Sagamore Parkway West.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to either Boswell Public Library, 101 N Clinton Street, Boswell Indiana 47921 or Indiana United Methodist Children’s Home, 515 W. Camp Street, PO Box 747, Lebanon, Indiana 46052 (online donation available at https://www.iumch.org/).