John Johnson

Evelyn Mae Bockwitz was born to John and Allie Johnson at Emden Illinois in 1915. She was their only daughter having come into a family of four boys. Two preceding her birth, Alfred and Urban and one following, her birth, Milton Johnson. Milton served in the U.S. military during World War 2. Evelyn lived on their farm , one mile east of Emden all of her life, until her marriage to John Bockwitz from San Jose Illinois. She lived at San Jose, and in later years with John in (Ocala Florida during 6 months of each year.) until the time of her homegoing in her late 80's. Evelyn was active in her church, in music, a charter member of Home Extension, as a farmers wife, mother of two, and grandmother of seven.