Duluth Central High School Class of 1961
Classmates

Searching - You can search for a classmate in a variety of ways using the search box and clicking the “Search!” button.  Upon viewing the results of your selection, click on “Search profile” next to the classmate's name to get a specific class member’s personal web page.

1. Name - Type in the first OR last name (not both) or even parts of a name if you don’t know how to spell it.  For example, if you type in “don”, you will get Donald, Gordon and even O’Donnell.

2. Deceased Only - Click this "In Memory" button for a complete listing of deceased class members.  Then just click the desired name for their obituary (not all have been found).

3. Classmate Stories - Type in a plus sign (  +  ), no parenthesis, and you will get only those classmates that have written stories about their past 50 years.

Please Send Your Pictures - If your picture was not in the yearbook (then picture) or if you haven’t sent us your current picture (now picture).  Please send it to Ken Sorensen via E-mail or snail mail.  Pictures should be head and shoulder shots so you can be easily identified.

Where are they now? - Check out the "Where are they now?" button below.  This ties us to google maps and tells you where each of us is located.  It will not give exact locations, just approximate. 

A. If you click on a name at the right of the map, it will show the approximate location of that individual.  Actual addresses and phone numbers are protected by the site.

B. If you click on a pin point it will tell you the name of the person living by that point.  In busy areas like Duluth or Minneapolis, you may want to zoom in to further separate the pin points.

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View profile »Barbara (Barb) Johnson (Harmon)
Germantown, MA
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Work Status: ???
Spouse: Robert L.
Information update: 8/12/10

Answered to the name of Barb, then hung up on our caller. Would not take further calls. If anyone else knows her please contact her for us to get work status and number of children and g… more »
 
View profile »Helen Johnson (Arndt+)
Greensburg, PA
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Retired
Single
3 Daughters
5 grandchildren
Information update: 08/04/2021
View profile »Janette (Jan) Johnson (Stanley+)
Sugar Hill, GA
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Retired
Spouse: James
3 children
7 grandchildren
Info. update: 10/24/2022

Right after high school graduation I worked at East High School, UMD and the Duluth AFB where I met and married the love of my life, Jim Stanley (Stan). He told me after the … more »
View profile »Jo Carol Johnson (Haugen ) (Deceased)
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Retired
Spouse: Ivan
4 Step-Children
4 Grandchildren
Information update: 11/29/2021
View profile »Karen Johnson (Bartlett)(Deceased)
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Retired
Spouse: Ronald (Ron)
3 children
9 grandchildren
1 great-grandchild
Information update 02/02/2022
View profile »Karin Johnson (Norlen+)
Two Harbors, MN
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Retired
Spouse: Deceased
1 Child
2 Grandchildren
Information update: 6/15/2013

I left school at the end of my junior year, went on to marry and live in Flint MI. I had one child was divorced and returned to Minnesota staying single many years. I w… more »
View profile »Lorna Johnson (McCorison)
Canyon Country, CA
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Work: Weaver
Spouse: Mike
2 children
Information update 11/13/09

We have the correct address and phone number, but she will not answer our calls or letters to verify other information.
 
View profile »Marilyn Johnson (Cone)
Vienna, VA
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Spouse: Norman

DOES NOT WANT TO BE CONTACTED!
 
View profile »Mary Johnson (Decker) (Deceased)
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August 14, 1943 to January 21, 2008

Mary "Mary B" Decker passed away Monday in Duluth at St. Luke's Hospital. She was born to Russell and Marion Johnson in Duluth. She graduated from Central High School in 1961, and later as an LPN. She worked many … more »
 
View profile »Myrna Johnson (Frank+)
LaCrosse, WI
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Retired
Spouse: Widow
2 Children
3.5 Grandchildren
Information update: 04/26/2022

On Halloween in 1964 I married the love of my life (Richard Frank) so I could be with him in St. Paul. I got a job as an Electrical Tech at Gould Battery where I stay… more »
View profile »Shirley Johnson (Auble+)
Duluth, MN
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Financial Advisor
Spouse: Allen
6 Children
14 Grandchildren
2 Great-grandchildren
Information update: 06/27/2022

After traveling around the country I landed in Pueblo West, CO and it is where my children call home. After 10 years, I then moved to … more »
View profile »Douglas (Doug) Johnson+
St. Paul, MN
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Work: Statistician
Spouse: Judy
2 Children
2 Grandchildren
Information update: 11/28/2020

Following my lack-luster academic high school years (for which Bernie Friedenson properly chastised me while signing my yearbook), I continued a lack-luster ac… more »
View profile »Richard (Dick) Jyring (Deceased)
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Work: Mechanical Engineer
Spouse: Sally
2 Children
2 Grandchildren
Info update: 03/31/2017

Sally and I met via a cousin of hers in the spring of 1960. Her cousin, Allan Olson, a 1960 Duluth Central graduate, and I drove from Duluth to St. Paul for t… more »
View profile »Judy Kangas (Whittaker)
Greenwood, IN
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Secretary-Supreme Court
Divorced
1 Child
1 Grandchild
Information update: 6/23/10
 
View profile »Darlene Kapuscinski (Watson)
Duluth, MN
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Darlene Watson Designs
Partner: Lisa
2 Children
Information update: 10/24/2022

50 years? And it seems like only 48 years since we graduated!

And what have I done in the interim? Well, if the state of MY memory is any indicator, you're not going t… more »
 
View profile »Jerry Karkkainen (Deceased)
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Retired
Single
3 Children
4 Grandchildren
Born 07/30/1943
Date of Death 01/25/2017
View profile »Marja Karppinen (Sadeniemi+)
00170 Helsinki, Finland
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Profession: Press and PR manager at the University of Helsinki
Retired in 2008
Spouse: Pentti
2 Children
5 Grandchildren
Information update: 3/9/11

I was the foreign exchange student in Duluth Central High in 1960-61. My year in Duluth was full of … more »
View profile »Judith (Judy) Katalinich (Young)
Lansing, MI
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Retired
Spouse: Divorced
2 Children
6 Grandchildren
Information update: 7/15/10
 
View profile »Patrick (Pat) Kennedy+
Britt, MN
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Retired:
Spouse: Darlene
6 Children
8 Grandchildren
Information update: 07/22/2013

Shortly after High School graduation, I enlisted in the U.S. Army, as I was without a plan for my future. I trained as a Communications Lineman and served in Kaiser… more »
View profile »Lois Kent (Murtley )(Deceased)
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Retired
Partner: Roger Baringer
7 Children
12 Grandchildren
2 Great-grandchildren
Information update: 06/22/2023

Best of all I raised my kids. Around the late 1980's I moved to the great city of White Bear Lake, where I worked as a night auditor. … more »