Maxine Johansen, age 90, of Hampton, IA passed away peacefully on Monday, June 17, 2024, under hospice care at Franklin Country View in Hampton. Woodley Funeral Home and Crematory of Hampton is caring for Maxine and her family.
Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, June 28, 2024, at Immanuel United Church of Christ in Latimer with Pastor Joseph Dunnwald officiating. Visitation will be held the same day, from 10:00 a.m. until service time. Following the service, Maxine will be laid to rest at the Coulter Cemetery.
Maxine, the daughter of Lester and Bertha Muhlenbruch, was born on August 7, 1933. She grew up in Hampton and Latimer area where she attended school and graduated from Franklin Consolidated in 1951. Maxine was united in marriage to Wendell “Lump” Johansen on January 27, 1952, at Immanuel United Church of Christ in Latimer. The couple made their home east of Latimer where they farmed. Maxine was a homemaker, helped Lump with the farming operation, worked tirelessly with Johansen Auction and because of her enjoyment working with the elderly, she worked a few years as a Franklin County Home Health aide. Lump and Maxine also enjoyed the winters they spent in Mesa, Arizona. Maxine played the organ for over 50 years at Nazareth Lutheran Church in Coulter, loved to cook and bake, enjoyed music and crafts and was an accomplished seamstress. Lump often referred to her as “The best darn cook in Franklin County.” She was active in many church activities at Nazareth Lutheran Church. The past few years she was pleased to be able to re-join Immanuel-her home church.
Maxine is survived by her children: Mark (LuAnn) Johansen of Latimer, Jane Eilderts of Cedar Falls and Anne (Bryce) Claypool of Hampton, grandchildren: Nate (Sara), Leah (Denton), Hannah (Terry), Spencer (Noelle), Parker (Annie), Brady (Katie), Kimberly (Mark) and Michael (Amber) and several great-grandchildren, whom she dearly loved.
Reminiscing about Mom/Grandma, we remember the kitchen table full of home-made rolls in the shape of wreaths and trees she gave as gifts at Christmas to teachers, friends and relatives, plates of Christmas cookies and candies at the holiday, her love of Diet Coke, the little cups of ice cream for dessert for the kids at family gatherings, her love for house dogs, sneakily eating McDonalds apple pies and labeling them in the fridge so no-one would eat them, eating sour Altoids, coerced gardening labor from the Claypool boys before they got snacks, working and having fun at auction nights, calling Leah “Dolly” and Hannah “Dimples” and we remember her sweet tooth!
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, sister Francis (Jack) Stackhouse and son-in-law Al Eilderts.
In expression of sympathy, memorials may be given to Immanuel United Church of Christ in Latimer or Care Initiatives Cedar Valley Hospice.
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