Johnson - Thomas - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

The hospital unit with which Dr. Tom Johnson is serving has been transferred from San Diego to Ft. Worth, Texas, and will probably go across soon. -- kbz

Source: Waveland Independent newspaper, Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana, Jan 11, 1940

   

It seems that no holiday season can get by Waveland without a   saddening event. Such as the word that came on Saturday evening   that Dr. Tom Johnson had died at his home in Ben Davis, a suburb   of Indianapolis. He was at home with his daughter, Mrs. WA   Reeder, when the fatal heart seizure came. He had a slight attack   in Florida two weeks previously, where he had been called by the   serious illness of Mrs. Johnson at their winter home in Holly   Hill. Dr. Johnson was one of the twin sons of Fountain North and   Mary Virginia Brown Johnson, born Sept 2, 1882. "Tom and Ted"   Johnson grew up here and attended the public school. Dr. Johnson   had a natural bent for medicine as was natural, as his   grandather, Dr. Royald T. Brown was both a physician and a   Christian mininster, and one of the founders of Butler   University. Dr. Tom was graduated from the University of Maryland   Medical School, the youngest of the class of 1904. He served his   internship in the Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, and entered   practice in jamestown, later moving to Ben Davis, where he was   very successful and his death will bring regret to many who were   not only benefitted by his professional skill but found in him a   sympathetic friend. A year after his graduation he married Mis   Lydia Adelia Garland, who survives with one daughter, Virginia   now Mrs. AW Reeder of Indianapolis. Besides the twin brother,   Theodore N. Johnson, there is one half-brother, John A. Johnson   of Crawfordsvile. At the outbreak of the World War he enlisted in   the medical corps and was first listed to go to Siberia, but   later served at San Antonion in Camp Presidio, at Ft. Worth and   with the rank of Capt. was a member of the Christian Church and   America Medical Association, the state and county associations,   the Scottish Rite and Shrine. Funeral services at the SHirley   Funeral Parlors in Indaianpolis on Wednesday afternoon were in   charge of Rev. Howard Anderson of the Speedway Christian Church.   Burial in Crown Hill Cem, where services were in charge of   Masonic Fraternity and the American Legion. Those going from here   were Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and Richard, Mrs. Gordon Robison, Mrs.   Nina Williams, Mrs. Julia Conner, TM Garland and Mrs. JD Fisher;   from Crawfordsville John A. Johnson and Esther, Mrs. Delia   Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Johnson. - kbz