Virginia Julia Johnson, 79, of Celeste, passed away on October 27, 2015 at Briarcliff Health Center. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Celeste with Rev. David Hawkins and Rev. Jim Sherwin officiating. Services are under the direction of Coker-Mathews Funeral Home. Burial will follow at a later date at St. John’s Cemetery in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. Visitation will be held at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday and Friday.
Virginia was born in Davenport, Iowa on September 15, 1936 to Henry Bousselot and Florence Zechmeister.
Three brothers and three sisters were added to this growing family:
Florine, Eugene, Jerome, Roger, Bonnie, and Yvonne.
Virginia attended Scott County Public Schools through eighth grade, then to Davenport High School and eventually Marycrest College, graduating with a BA in education.
She married Arthur L. Johnson from Winslow Maine in 1957. After his Navy tour was over they returned to Iowa where she taught school and started her bachelors program.
After moving to Texas in 1985, she pursued her Masters at Texas Wesleyan majoring in ESL. She taught school in Ft Worth, UTA, and TWU also Princeton and Greenville.
Arthur preceded her in death in 1995. In early 1997, she met John Hanusa and they married at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Plano on July 26, 1997.
Upon retiring, Virginia resumed teaching sewing working with POBLO "people of the Book, Lutheran Outreach" where she taught sewing, quilting, and basic English skills to refugees.
Virginia is survived by her husband, John Hanusa; sons, Donald and Derek Johnson; daughter, Sherry Teppo; grandchildren, Colette and Christianna Johnson, Kristina and Will Twyford, Felicia and Preston Swindell, Dorothy, Meredith and Adeline Johnson and great grandchild, Aria Twyford.