Frank Johnson, Matfield Green
1928 - 2007
Frank Johnson of Matfield Green died Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007, at the Golden Living Center in Cottonwood Falls. He was 79.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, with location to be announced in the complete obituary Tuesday.
Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home has the arrangements.
The service to celebrate the life of Ira Frank Johnson will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Matfield Community Church in Matfield Green. The Rev. Jim Bartsch of the Flint Hills Community Church will conduct the service. Burial, with military services conducted by a Fort Riley honor guard, will be in Matfield Green cemetery. The family will meet friends from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home in Cottonwood Falls. Friends also may call from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home and at the church Thursday from 9 a.m. until service time.
Memorial contributions to the Matfield Community Church may be sent in care of the funeral home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Messages to the family may be left at www.brown-bennett-alexander.com.
Mr. Johnson died Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007, at the Golden Living Center of Chase County in Cottonwood Falls. He was 79.
He was a retired U.S. Army veteran, having served in the Army for more than 20 years. During that time, he and his wife lived in many places in the United States. He was a road grader for the Chase County Road and Bridge Department and a contract mail carrier for many years. He also was a mechanic.
The son of Ira Earl and Lucille Faye Richards Johnson, he was born Feb. 6, 1928, in Chase County. He married Patsy J. Archer on July 12, 1953, at Cottonwood Falls. She survives.
Mr. Johnson was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He is also survived by one son, Cecil Johnson of Matfield Green; one sister, Inez Irene Buckley of Pueblo, Colo.; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. A sister, Lucille Macom, died earlier.