Bladen County NcArchives Obituaries.....Johnson, F. Roy 1988
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Donated Obit
F. ROY JOHNSON

Mr. F. Roy Johnson of Murfreesboro, N.C., a journalist, publisher, historian and 
folklorist, died Monday, Oct. 17, 1988, at age 76.

A native of Bladen County, N.C. and a graduate of Duke University, Mr. Johnson 
was a self-taught printer who began his publishing career in 1937 with the Surry 
Herald in Surry County. In 1940, he moved his family and newspaper operation to 
Murfreesboro where he printed the Northeastern North Carolina News, a paper he 
had started while in Surry County.

In 1947, Mr. Johnson changed the paper’s name to the Roanoke-Chowan Daily News 
and in 1963 sold that business to Parker Brothers Newspapers of Ahoskie.
For the next 25 years, Mr. Johnson researched, wrote, set to type, bound and 
published more than 60 books, primarily dealing with the folklore and history of 
eastern North Carolina.

Mr. Johnson also served one term as president of the North Carolina Folklore 
Society and in 1976 received that organization’s highest recognition, the Brown-
Hudson Folklore Award.

In 1988, the Murfreesboro Historical Association awarded a “Certificate of 
Merit” to Mr. Johnson for his “significant contributions to the town of 
Murfreesboro, Hertford County and the entire Roanoke-Chowan Region of North 
Carolina.”

Survivors include his wife, Margaret Hamlin Johnson; a son, Charles William 
Johnson of Bryson City, N.C.; a daughter, Mary Ann Johnson of Goldsboro, N.C.; a 
brother, Nolon Johnson of Ivanhoe.


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