Eugene Johnson Obituary
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Funeral services for Seminole 
County church member Rev. 
Eugene Albert Johnson are 
scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Monday 
at Resthaven Funeral Home 
Chapel.
Rev. T.J. Fixico and Rev. Billy 
Barnett will officiate.
Burial is set to follow at Res-
thaven Memorial Park under the 
direction of Resthaven Funeral 
Home.
A wake service is scheduled 
for Sunday evening at Indian Na-
tions Church.
Johnson died Friday, Oct. 19, 
2001 at the age of 71.
He was born Aug. 30, 1930 in 
Shawnee to Steve Johnson and 
Jane (Johnson) Davis.
He graduated from Dale High 
School in 1949 and attended one 
year of college at Oklahoma City 
University.
Johnson was employed with 
the International Paper Company 
in Oklahoma City.  
He also worked for HGP 
Company for 20 years.
He joined the U.S. Air Force 
and served 36 months in the Ko-
rean War with the 332nd Engineer 
Aviation Battalion Company.
Johnson was a member of the 
Absentee Shawnee Tribe and In-
dian Nation Baptist Church.
He served as a deacon at Snake 
Creek Indian Baptist Church #2 
in Seminole. 
He served as a minister at Riv-
erside Indian Baptist Church in 
Tecumseh.
Johnson was an ADD volun-
teer chaplain at Cooper Memorial 
Mission in McLoud and chaplain 
at Carl Albert Indian Health 
Service in Ada.
He was preceded in death by 
his parents; two brothers, Jackie 
Johnson and Bobby Johnson; one 
grandson and one great-
granddaughter.
He is survived by his wife, 
Myrtle Lois Johnson, of the 
home; nine sons, Ronnie Johnson, 
Steve Johnson, Walter Johnson, 
and Leam Johnson, all of 
Shawnee, Grayling Johnson and 
Joe Johnson, both of Tecumseh, 
George Johnson, of Blanchard, 
and Bruce Johnson, of Oklahoma 
City; one daughter, Vera Vac-
caro, of Rio Rancho, N.M.; 39 
grandchildren; 17 great-
grandchildren; one sister, 
Marlene Stoliby, of Oklahoma 
City; three brothers, Wilbur Lee 
Johnson, of Huntington Beach, 
Calif., Tillman Johnson, of Los 
Angeles, Calif., and Delbert 
Johnson, of Oklahoma City.



As updated on 10/19/01 3:58:42 PM