Obituary of STEVE W. JOHNSON, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

Copied and Submitted by: Doug McBroom, 15520 Swan Lake Blvd., Gulfport, MS 
39503

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La. 
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date: March 17, 1949

Headline: Body of Steve Johnson Returned fro Reburial

Mrs. J. L. Wishum of Jena has just been informed that the body of her 
brother, Steve W. Johnson (S. W.), Private in the Army, killed in action 
March 5, 1945, will be returned for reburial.

The body upon return to this country will be Coffeeville, Miss., the home of 
his foster mother and father who reared him from a small boy.

Johnson joined the Army in August 1942 and was given training at Camp 
Robertson in Arkansas.

He was later assigned to the 5th Army. He lost his life near Rhine River in 
Germany.