Johnson, John L. (Buss) 1907-1971

Obituary – John L. (Buss) Johnson
Contributed to Genealogy Pit Stop
By Cookie Sisco
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Services will be held Monday at 1;30 at the Dawson Funeral Home for John L. (Buss) Johnson, 64, of 309 Michigan Ave., Zephyrhills, Fla.

A former resident of East Liverpool, he died Friday (May 8, 1971) at 8 a.m. at West Penn Hospital, Pittsburgh.

The Rev. Jonathan McKeown of the Oakland Free Methodist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Columbiana County Memorial Park.

Mr. Johnson was born in West Virginia May 5, 1907, but had resided in East Liverpool virtually his lifetime. He moved to Florida about two years ago after retiring from the Midland Crucible Division of Colt Industries. He was a 32nd degree Mason of the Steubenville Consistory and a member of East Liverpool Masonic Lodge 681.

He leaves his widow, Mrs. Pauline Kennedy Johnson, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Betty Jane) Smith of East Liverpool and Mrs. James Allen (Dorothy) Penn of Chester; a son William T. Johnson of East Liverpool; a sister, Mrs. John (Faye) Johnson of Midland, 12 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday.