Virginia Johnson-Krupa

Virginia Emilie Johnson-Krupa (Ginny), 68, was called home by her Lord on March 29, 2023, after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on Feb. 10, 1955, to Robert and Barbara (Hafner) Johnson in Davenport, Iowa. Her father was an army chaplain and she talked about being an army brat and the many places that they lived: Moline and Rock Island, Illinois; Jamestown, New York; Everett, Maine; East Hampton, Connecticut; Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Tacoma, Washington; and Nurnberg, Germany, where she graduated high school from the Nurnberg American School in 1973. After high school, she returned to Washington to earn her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pacific Lutheran University in 1977. She continued her education at Lutheran Bible Institute from 1978 to 1980, earning a Bachelor of Science in Biblical studies while working at Augsburg Publishing House. She began her seminary studies in 1990 at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia. She did her internship at Cambridge Lutheran Church in Cambridge, Minnesota and received her Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1995. She was ordained in 1995.