Everett Weldon Johnson died at the age of 90 at home in Bates City, MO on June 22, 2022. Everett was the son of Charles Harvey Johnson and Ruby Maybell Huff. I was born the 24 February 1932, northeast of Grain Valley, on McQuerry Road, east of Buckner Tarsney at my parents’ home.
I went to school 12 years at Grain Valley. In the summers I worked at the peony farm carrying peonies. I worked nights while in High School at the Levasy Dehydrator and through summer break forking alfalfa hay into the dehydrator. After my graduation in 1949, I worked for Dierks Lumber Company, in Kansas City, MO, until I was drafted into the US Army in 1952. I took my basic training at Camp Breckenridge, KY. I had ten weeks of wheel mechanic school at Camp Breckenridge, KY. Then another ten weeks of tank mechanic school at Fort Knox, KY. With another two weeks of Honeywell turret mechanic school at Detroit, MI. I spent the rest of my service at Fort Hood, TX. I returned to Dierks Lumber Company after my military service. I worked for a classmate, Floyd Eudean Johnston, building and trimming homes. Dale Johnson and I built some homes in Odessa, MO and Knob Noster, Mo. I then started work at the Oak Grove School District for 13 years as Head of Maintenance over Buildings and Grounds. I retired from the school in 1994.
I was preceded in death by my father Charles and Mother Ruby Maybell. Brother Junior who died at 16 and a sister Beatrice Freeman.
I married Patricia Joyce Hood on 28 day of April 1953. She was the daughter of Elmer Hood and Sylva Johnson. We had 3 children: Ardena Joyce who married Edward Soetaert, and they had 3 daughters; Susan (Cody Brittain); Vicky (Kane Mueller); and Sarah (Marco Jimenez): Jay Weldon who married Beverly Lou (Pollack), and they had 2 daughters; Marla, (Samuel Ungeheier); Connie, (Kenneth James): and Jim Donald who married Donna Lou (Dennis), and they had one son; Justin Timothy, they divorced. He then married Cindy (Booker). There are 14 great grandchildren.
I divorced Pat in 1998. I then married Doris L. (Karr) Reeder, on the 6th day of April 1998. She is the daughter of Ira Karr and Flo Litson.
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 26th in Perdee Cemetery, Grain Valley, MO. If you have a word to say, good or bad, please attend.
Arrangements: Royer Funeral Home, Oak Grove, MO
Dona Halsey Whitehead
22 Jul 2022My thoughts and prayers are with your family. I really liked you. You were always so nice to me and always talked to me when we seen each other. I remember helping you pull your mower out with your little pickup truck one day at your home. Just as we were done a big rain cloud came up and dumped rain on us both.
A memory I will always remember.
May you be at peace, I will always remember you!
God Bless Your Family, Dona Halsey Whitehead