Chatham-Evans-Tattnall County GaArchives News.....Former Detective Sergeant Dies in Highway Accident July 30, 1969
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Savannah Evening News July 30, 1969
Retired city police sergeant Cary R. Johnson, 66, of 323 E.DeRenne Ave., was 
killed last night in a traffic accident on the Ogeechee Road.

Mr. Johnson had just stepped from his car, which had skidded to a halt just 
south of the Dean Forest Road intersection, when an oncoming car struck the 
open door, crushing him.  He was dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital.

Police said Mr. Johnson apparently had stopped because of a flat tire, 
apparently caused when his car struck the side of a bridge.

Wife Unhurt.

His wife, a passenger in the car, was unhurt.

The drive of the other car was Billy K. Evans, 38, of 1664 Winter Drive.

State Trooper W. L. Gordy said Mr. Johnson had been driving north behind a 
tractor-trailer truck.  His car went into the skid as the truck began to turn 
left into the Dean Forest Road.  Evans, whose view was blocked by the turning 
truck, apparently was unaware Mr. Johnson's car was straddling the road, Gordy 
said.

Joined Force in '33

Johnson joined the police force July 8, 1933.  He served as a patrolman for 
only two weeks before he was named a motorcycle officer.  Johnson spent five 
years in that capacity and then was appointed detective.  He was promoted to 
sergeant in 1947.

He left the police force in 1949 but returned to service in 1955.  He retired 
on April 1, 1965.

Johnson was a crack pistol shot and won numerous medals for the Savannah 
police in pistol competitions.  He was also instrumental in the organization 
of the Policemen's Union, and worked through the union for a civil service 
bill.

Surviving Mr. Johnson are his wife, Mrs. Lucy Lewis Johnson of Savannah; two 
sons, Cary J. Johnson Jr. of Hazlehurst and Joseph L. Johnson of Savannah; two 
daughters, Mrs. Robert T. Thompson of Ridgeland, S.C., and Mrs. Maurice 
DeLoach of Chesapeake, Va.; a brother Willie Johnson of Miami; five sisters, 
Mrs. Mildred Bragg, Mrs. Jessie Brown and Mrs. Katherine (sic - should 
be "Catherine") Bragg, all of Savannah, Mrs. Essie Saxton of Glennville and 
Mrs. Janie Akins of Reidsville; 12 grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Calvary Baptist Temple.  
Burial will be at Hillcrest Abbey.

Sipple's Mortuary is in charge.

Additional Comments:
Cary was one of five children of David B. Johnson (1877-1910) and Mary Jane 
Dukes Johnson (1880-1934).  His siblings were Ella Mae Johnson, Essie Johnson, 
Thelma L. Johnson, and Willie Burton Johnston.  The Johnson family lived near 
Daisy, in an area that became part of Evans County.

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