Creek Indian Nation - OBIT:  Jimmie Johnson
Creek Citizens from across Creek Nation

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   OKbits File Muscogee Nation News
   Creek citizens from across Creek Nation 
   
   JOHNSON
   OKEMAH - Jimmie JOHNSON was born April 3, 1928, in Okemah. He died
   June 16, 1992, in Okemah.  Wake services were held at Webb Schumacher
   Funeral Chapel June 18 with funeral services June 19 at Thlopthlocco
   United Methodist Church, where he was a member and elder. Officiating
   the funeral was Rev. Jacob Ray McGILBRAY. Interment was in the
   Thlopthlocco Cemetery.
   He attended Sequoyah Boarding School in Tahlequah. He enlisted in 1946
   and served in the U.S. Army as a military policeman in Europe. He also
   was a veteran of the Korean War and received the Korean Service Medal
   with three Bronze Stars. He was active in the American Legion and
   Veterans of Foreign Wars.
   He married Minnie Sullivan in 1950. She survives. His other survivors
   include his four sons, Luther JOHNSON and Jonny JOHNSON, both of
   Okemah, and Daniel JOHNSON and Winslow JOHNSON, both of Glenpool; his
   two daughters, Lillie Ann HINKLE of Castle, and Connie LUNSFORD of
   Okmulgee; three sisters, Leona ZINK of Okemah, Lena HOPE and Betty
   FLEMING, both of Del City; and ten grandchildren.