Obituaries
James Fred Johnson
April 2, 1906 - April 21, 1989
Interment:
Highland Memorial Gardens in Logan, West Virginia
James Fred Johnson
Formerly of Switzer, Logan County, West Virginia
Husband of Maryilyn Berkley Johnson, a Logan County Educator and Principal
James Fred Johnson was a licensed Embalmer and Funeral Director in the State of West Virginia. He was a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science. He previously worked at the James Funeral Home in Logan, WV. James Fred Johnson founded the Johnson Funeral Home on Rt. 44 in Switzer, Logan County, West Virginia in the 1950s. He purchased the former Island Creek Company Store in Switzer, West Virginia and after extensive renovations, the Johnson Funeral Home was opened. Johnson Funeral Home was located beside the U. S. Post Office in Switzer, WV and had the phone number 304-946-2212. Fred Johnson had the reputation of being one of the finest embalmers in the State. He was an excellent restorative artist and made it possible for coal mine accident victims to be viewed by their family. He operated the funeral home until he retired in the early 1980s.
J. Fred Johnson is survived by his wife, Marilyn (nee Berkley) Johnson, two daughters, Joanna, and her husband, Danny Seay of Barboursville, West Virginia, and Jeanette Brannock of Palm Bay, Florida.
James Fred Johnson was laid to rest at Highland Memorial Gardens in Logan, WV
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MARILYN BERKLEY JOHNSON BERRY {Wife)
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MARILYN BERKLEY JOHNSON BERRY, 78, of Palm Bay, Florida, passed from this life Saturday, May 13, 2006, at Palm Bay Community Hospital.
She was born February 17, 1928, in Logan, West Virginia, a daughter of the late Carl and Mary Berkley. She was a retired Logan County educator, teacher and principal. She was previously married to J. Fred Johnson of the Johnson Funeral Home on Rt. 44 in Switzer, Logan County, West Virginia. She and her first husband, J. Fred Johnson operated and lived above the Johnson Funeral Home in Switzer, WV.
She was a member of the First Freewill Baptist Church of Melbourne, Fla., a member of the Bethlehem #71 Order of the Eastern Star, Beckley, W.Va., and an avid porcelain doll maker.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, J. Fred Johnson; two sisters, Marie Berkley and Katherine Buskirk and one brother, Carl Berkley Jr.
She is survived by her loving family, her husband, Charles E. Berry; three daughters, Jeanette Brannock of Palm Bay, Florida, Joanna and Danny Seay of Barboursville, West Virginia, and Verna Butch and Keith Ross of Huntington, West Virginia; four grandchildren, Stephen Brannock of Palm Bay, Florida, Chad and Cyndi Brannock of Syracuse, N.Y., Lyn and Melvin Moore, and Dustin and Melissa Seay, all of Barboursville, West Virginia, five great-grandchildren, Christopher and Matthew
Moore of Barboursville and Justin, Janae and Haley Branncok of Syracuse, N.Y., and a host of family and friends.
Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, May 18, 2006. at 11 a.m., at the Wallace Funeral Home & Chapel, Barboursville, with the Rev. Carlos Gibson officiating. Committal services will be at 2 p.m. at the Highland Memory Gardens, Logan, W.Va. Eastern Star services will be conducted at 7 p.m. Wednesday by OES #95, Barboursville. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 17, 2006, at the Wallace Funeral Home, Barboursville, W.Va.
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James Fred Johnson, First Husband
Danny Seay, Son-In-Law
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J Fred Johnson Memorial Page
Danny Seay Memorial Page
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Medicare Expert Is Morticians' Guest Speaker R. N. Campbell, Medicare manager for the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. in Charleston was the guest speaker Thursday night of a joint meeting of Funeral Directors of the Southern West Virginia and Greenbrier Districts. Meeting at the Glass Housej Campbell spoke on proper ways or requirements for ambulance service to be eligible for payment under the Medicare program. Presiding over the meeting was Milton Alley, immediate past president of the West Virginia Funeral Directors Association. Price H. Calfee, Jr., president of the Southern Dis- jtrict was co-chairman of the event. Dignitaries attending the dinner were William S. Broyies, president of the Greenbrier District, Mr. and Mrs. Miles W. Bodey of Wheeling, state president of the W. Va. Funeral Directors Association and Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Louderback, executive secretary. Others attending were MB, and Mrs. C. L. Lobban of Alderson, Mr. and Mrs, Stanley Broyles of Union, Mr. and Mrs; Pete L. Hornbeck of Sophia, Mr. and Mrs. Price H. Calfee; HI, of PineviUe, Hugh B. Moore of Beckley, Mr. and Mrs. James Allen of Hinton, Mrs. Price Cal- ;ee of Beckley, Mr, and Mrs. Robert Campbell of Charleston, Mrs. Milton Alley of St. Albans; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas T. Bryant of Beckley, Marshall A. Shanklin of White Sulphur Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Buster of East KainelJe, Don Neely of Mullens, Otto Frede- klng of Princeton, Ben F. Williams of Sophia, James P. Head' ley of Bluefield, P. E. Davis of Oakvale, Ralph Richards of Logan, J. Fred Johnson of Switzer, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Green of Ansted; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas
Medicare Expert Is Morticians' Guest Speaker R. N. Campbell, Medicare manager for the Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. in Charleston was the guest speaker Thursday night of a joint meeting of Funeral Directors of the Southern West Virginia and Greenbrier Districts. Meeting at the Glass Housej Campbell spoke on proper ways or requirements for ambulance service to be eligible for payment under the Medicare program. Presiding over the meeting was Milton Alley, immediate past president of the West Virginia Funeral Directors Association. Price H. Calfee, Jr., president of the Southern Dis- jtrict was co-chairman of the event. Dignitaries attending the dinner were William S. Broyies, president of the Greenbrier District, Mr. and Mrs. Miles W. Bodey of Wheeling, state president of the W. Va. Funeral Directors Association and Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Louderback, executive secretary. Others attending were MB, and Mrs. C. L. Lobban of Alderson, Mr. and Mrs, Stanley Broyles of Union, Mr. and Mrs; Pete L. Hornbeck of Sophia, Mr. and Mrs. Price H. Calfee; HI, of PineviUe, Hugh B. Moore of Beckley, Mr. and Mrs. James Allen of Hinton, Mrs. Price Cal- ;ee of Beckley, Mr, and Mrs. Robert Campbell of Charleston, Mrs. Milton Alley of St. Albans; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas T. Bryant of Beckley, Marshall A. Shanklin of White Sulphur Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Buster of East KainelJe, Don Neely of Mullens, Otto Frede- klng of Princeton, Ben F. Williams of Sophia, James P. Head' ley of Bluefield, P. E. Davis of Oakvale, Ralph Richards of Logan, J. Fred Johnson of Switzer, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Green of Ansted; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Coleman. all of Oak Hill and William R. Riley and Jack E. O'Neill, both of Beckley. Individual taxpayers who fileipated income during 1966 has declarations of estimated Feder- i changed may be required to file al income tax returns must pay an amended declaration of esti- the second installment of tax mated tax. A blank form for due on their 1966 estimate by (use as an amended return is Wednesday, June 15, 1966. Taxpayers who first met the printed on the back of the bill which the Internal Revenue requirements for filing a dec-! Service sends individuals for an laration of estimated tax after April 1, 1966, but on or berore June 1, are required to file their declarations of estimated tax return for 1966 on Form 1040-ES installment of estimated tax, Mr. Jones said. Form 1040-ES (Amended)" also may be obtained from any Internal Revenue Service office. by June 15 and pay at least one- j Document No. 5111, which fur- third of the estimated tax by that date. nishes more detailed information on this subject, may be ob- Hugh D. Jones, District Direc-jtained by writing to your Distor of Internal Revenue, saidjtrict Director, Internal Revenue that taxpayers whose autici-! Service. THE DOCTOR Menopause: Physiological Process, Not A Disease By DR. WAYNE BRAJVDSTADT For Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Since all women, if they live long enough, will go through the menopause, this is not a disease