Edward Johnson

Edward Clay Johnson peacefully passed away at home on Thursday, March 21, 2002, the result of a cerebral stroke suffered in November. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of LTC Edward Clay Johnson and Mildred Scherer Johnson. A 1937 graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School, he attended Texas A&M University 1937-1940. Prior to World War II, he entered the U.S. Army Air Corps, attending Flight School at Kelly AFB. Selected to be trained by Pan American Airline, he became one of the First Army Air Corps Navigation Instructors. Being severely injured in an aircraft accident, Captain Johnson was retired in 1945, after a long hospitalization. He spent 30 years in the retail furniture business in San Antonio with Jorries and Levitz. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Cathryn Kitty and children, Sandi Prescher and husband, Walter, Joanne Rubinstein and husband, Rabbi Gordon, Edward Clay Johnson and wife, Martha. His grandchildren are Arthur Prescher, Brenda White, Walter Prescher III, Sean Burgess, PhD, George Burgess, Miranda Sullivan, Nicklaus Johnson and he has six great grandchildren. Other survivors are his sisters, Dorothy Palkalka and Margaret Canby.