Johnson - Tom
Source: Waveland Independent
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.