Minnesota theater group surprised by Johnson & Johnson matriarch’s bequest of $2 million lake house
Betty Wold Johnson was born in St. Paul in 1921 to eye surgeon Dr. Karl Christian Wold and Maybelle Lundgrengrew. She often attended Golden Gophers games with her father.
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7:13 am, Apr. 25, 2021
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This mansion located on White Bear Lake, which used to be a summer home of Betty Wold Johnson of Johnson and Johnson, was gifted to the Lakeshore Players Theater and is pictured on Friday, April 16, 2021. Emma Gottschalk / St. Paul Pioneer Press
ST. PAUL -- Ten months into the pandemic, the Lakeshore Players Theatre in White Bear Lake, Minn., was pivoting like a sailboat in a hurricane.