In Memory
RICK'S OBITUARY I, William Rick Johnson, passed away on October 13, 2023, while feeling the warm embrace of all those who loved me. I was born to Bill and Jackie Johnson on July 16, 1954. My sister Debbie completed our family four years later. I led an idyllic childhood in McCook and somehow survived a reckless youth. On August 28, 1986 Karmon Hohl (Felker) and I were married. This union completed my family with a wonderful wife and three children, a daughter and two sons. Dayle Johnson, Aaron Felker and Clint Johnson. We raised our new family on an acreage west of McCook. Love, kids, cats, dogs, horses, and flowers. It really doesn’t get better than that. I was blessed with five grandchildren. Dayle married Brandon Laird and gave me Brohdy and Ghrey Laird. Aaron married Nen Felker (Sheahan) and gave me Jeremy, Isaiah and Gabriel Goertz. After college I ran my own farm and livestock business for just over 20 years. I then managed farms and sold Real Estate for Farmers National Co. for another two decades until I retired. I was preceded in death by my parents, grandparents, many aunts and uncles and several first cousins. The depth of my life was the unbearable loss of my daughter Dayle on Christmas eve 2022. At my mother’s clear direction, I have done the best I could to live according to the teachings of Jesus. So, I told Karmon, if such a place as Heaven exists, I’ll be there waiting for her. Cremation was chosen and memorial services will be held at 2:30PM on Sunday afternoon, October 22, 2023 at Herrmann-Jones Funeral Chapel in McCook with Pastor Tyler Thiessen officiating. Memorials are suggested to the Pediatric Cancer Action Network of Nebraska, Shriners Hospitals for Children, or to Community HealthCare and Hospice of McCook. Online condolences may be left at herrmannfh.com. Arrangements have been entrusted to Herrmann-Jones Funeral Chapel of McCook.
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