Alice G. (Sandstrom) Johnson

Waltham – Mrs. Alice G. (Sandstrom) Johnson, of Waltham, died Saturday, September 24, 2016 at Quabbin Valley Healthcare Center in Athol. She was 88.

Alice was born in Waltham on October 15, 1927, daughter of the late Sigur and Dorothy (Penney) Sandstrom. She was a lifetime member of First Lutheran Church in Waltham and also belonged to Living Lord Lutheran Church in Vero Beach, Florida.

She was also an auxiliary member of American Legion Post No. 40 in Plymouth and was a member of Friends of Calumet in Ossipee, New Hampshire and the Swedish Charitable Society of Greater Boston.

The wife of the late Richard S. Johnson she leaves her daughter, Lisa M. Gauthier of Winchendon; her grandchildren, Jessica Lee Rufo of Newton and August G. Gauthier of Winchendon; her great-grandchild, Jailee Klien; her sister, Pamela Sperry and her husband, James, of Burlington and her nieces and nephews, Douglas and Daniel Sperry of Burlington, Scott Aiken of Sunapee, New Hampshire, Leeanne Sandstrom of Newton and Candace Wilson of Exeter, New Hampshire.

Alice was also a sister of the late Thomas Sandstrom.

Family and friends will honor and remember Alice's life by gathering for her funeral service on Saturday, October 15th at 11 a.m. in the First Lutheran Church of Waltham, 6 Eddy Street (cor. of Weston Street, Route 20), Waltham. Burial will follow in Mount Feake Cemetery, Waltham.

Memorial donations may be made to First Lutheran Church, 6 Eddy Street, Waltham, MA 02453 or to Brookhaven Hospice, 6 Beach Street, Framingham, MA 01702.