Kim Louise Eskelsen JOhnson

Kim Louise Johnson (nee Eskelsen) of Redlands, California passed from this life on 13 October 2025. She was born on 22 July 1955 in Boise, Idaho to Richard M. Eskelsen and Virginia E. Bird. Kim was raised in Brigham City, Utah and attended Bunderson Elementary School nearby. She was in the Ski Club at Box Elder High in Brigham City and graduated in 1973.

During her high school and junior college years, Kim worked at the Lake Lodge in Yellowstone National Park as a server, a maid, the elevator operator and tour guide. She graduated from Snow College in 1976 and attended Utah State University in 1977, majoring in Forestry.

Kim met her husband, Steven R. Johnson while working as a secretary at the Thiokol rocket motor facility near Promontory Point, Utah, and they were also in the same young single adults’ group at the Brigham City 12th Ward. Their first dates included skiing at her favorite resort - Beaver Mountain.

Kim and Steve were married by Elder LeGrand Richards on 15 June 1979 in the Salt Lake Utah Temple. They honeymooned in Yellowstone visiting her favorite places. While engaged and following the wedding, the Johnson family enjoyed serving at the Indian Ward in Brigham City. Kim’s first son, Joshua LeGrand Johnson, was born at the Brigham City Hospital in 1980.

Kim moved with her family to Wichita, Kansas, where her second son, Kaleb Wesley Johnson was born in 1982. Later she lived in Big Bear City, California and then in Boulder City, Nevada before moving to Redlands, California.

Prior to a near-fatal highway accident in March of 2016, Kim played the piano and organ in her church for nearly 37 years. She was also an avid bowler on the women’s leagues in Boulder City and Redlands.

Kim was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her husband; her sons Joshua (Big Bear City) and Kaleb (Kate Zeuschner) with four grandchildren; Elena, Wesley, Annora and Everett (Springfield, Virginia); her sister Catherine Anderson and brothers, Todd and Dan Eskelsen.

Memorial services will be held on November 10, 2025 at 10 AM in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 350 Wabash Ave. Redlands, California adjacent to the Redlands Temple. Interment will follow at the Big Bear Cemetery in Big Bear City, California.