Dates

• Existence: 1912 - 1972

Biography

Margaret Lillian Langland was born on January 2, 1912 in Williams, Iowa, to Severin and Nellie Langland. She had three sisters (Dolores, Gladys and Arleane) and three brothers (Floyd, Francis and Lowell). Margaret Langland graduated from Ellsworth High School in 1929. In 1933, she graduated from the Iowa Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing in Des Moines, Iowa. She lived in Story County, working at the Mary Greeley Hospital for a number of years before entering the Army Nurses Corps in 1942. She served overseas for 23 months and in 1946 received an honorable discharge as First Lieutenant. After World War II, Langland married Jasper Allen Johnson on September 11, 1952 in Las Vegas, Nevada. After her husband's death in 1965 in Santa Monica, California, Margaret Johnson worked as a nurse at the Veterans Hospital for 25 years. She received an award from the U.S. Government for being an outstanding nurse on June 28, 1961. Margaret Langland Johnson passed away July 12, 1972 in Santa Monica, California.

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