JOHNSON, Danny Lee - b. March 23, 1950 - d. October 26, 2006

[Janet Harrington]

(Taken from the Independence Daily Reporter, Friday, October 27, 2006, page 2)

Danny Lee Johnson, 56, of Howard, died Thursday at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
  Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Howard with Rev. Gene DeWitt officiating.  Interment will be in Piedmont Cemetery.
  Memorials are suggested to the Atishwin Institute of Wichita, and they may be left with Zimmerman Funeral Home, Howard.
  Mr. Johnson was born on March 23, 1950 in Wichita to Dee and Lois Elizabeth (Macy) Johnson.  He graduated from West High School in 1968.
  He was a pipefitter and welder throughout his life, and was a member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 441 in Wichita for 38 years, serving as business manager of Local 441 for seven years.
  He was previously married to Arletha Kay Slusser and Cathy Oliphant.
  On Sept. 12, 2006, he married Debra A. (McDonald) Harrison at Wichita, and they made their home in Howard.
  Mr. Johnson was a member of the Masonic Sunflower Lodge in Wichita.
  Survivors include his wife, Debra; three sons, Matthew, of Huntsville, Ala., Norman, of Howard, and Cotton, of El Dorado; a daughter, Anna Johnson, Wichita; two stepsons, Adam Harrison, Howard, and Justin Clark, Wichita; two stepdaughters, Stephanie Sundine and Brandi Farid, both of Wichita; three brothers, Jimmy and Donnie, both of Neosho, Mo., and Buddy, Harrison, Ark.; two sisters, Jerry Lou Dody, Portland, Ore., and Barbara Sisk, of Leon; and one stepgrandchild.