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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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.
Minnesota theater group surprised by Johnson & Johnson matriarch s bequest of $2 million lake house
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The park, established in 1997, “is a lasting memorial to all veterans who served, fought (and) died for our individual freedoms,” according to MarionFl.org, where information is posted about park events including the Quarterly Memorial, Memorial Day and Veterans Day events, band concerts and other programs.
The Vietnam War Traveling Memorial Wall has also been hosted at the park.
The park contains 5,000 memorial bricks, 200 benches and 100 commemorative plaques, the website indicates. I m blessed. The park is a beautiful and peaceful place and I can stop and talk to people. The park also has meaning to me; I have memorial bricks there for family members, she said.