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- Johanna Gertrude Huson was born in Holland on May 23, 1916,the daughter of Jan and Caroline DeJonge Huson. She and her younger brother Jan were brought to America by their parents, first to New jersey, and then by 1930 to West Sayville, Long Island, where they lived at the SW corner of Brook Street and Division Avenue. 8he attended Sayville High School and graduated from it in 1934. She then trained as a secretary at a school in Brooklyn, and as aDental Assistant in the office of John Freeman, a dentist in Sayville. Johanna and Charles Otto were married on June 25, 1937 in the Dutch Reformed Church on Cherry Avenue in West Sayville, attended by Belle Otto, Josephine Saunders, Lucille DeMeusy, James Buxton, Louis Otto, and Jan Huson. They went immediately to Charles new job in Hopewell, Va., living first in Petersburg and then in a new house in Hopewell. Jan and Joann (Jody) were born here. Of their other children, Jason, Neil, and Kristin were born in Ithaca, N.Y., and Eric was born in Wilmington, Delaware. While they lived in Ithaca Johanna completed courses in child development at Cornell as time allowed, and operated a nursery school at their home on College Ave. When Charles moved to Dupont, the family first lived in Wilmington and then moved to Newark to a large house on the edge of the campus of the University of Delaware. Johanna operated a nursery school in this house, and completed more courses in child development at the ;University of Delaware, until she received her BS degree, in this field in 1957. Several years latter she completed the requirements for an ~ degree at this same school. Charles' death in 1960 upset plans for a larger nursery school, and Johanna moved with her younger children to a farm in Darlington, Maryland. She was teaching school in Dublin, Maryland, at the time of her death in an automobile accident on February 22, 1963. In 1946 at the end of ~*J II Johanna started the "Adopt-A Family" movement (assist a family in war-torn Europe), which soon spread across this country. The birth of Kristin prevented her from becoming active in this movement, but others jumped on the bandwagon and expanded~ its activities. Johanna was active in the local American Association of University Women, and she and Charles were active in the formation of a Unitarian Church in Newark.
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1916 - 1963 (46 years)
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