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Additional JOHNSON Surnames in BEEF BRANCH CHURCH AKA JACKSON Cemetery
Additional JOHNSON Surnames in NEWTON County
JOHNSON, BiddieJOHNSON, BurkJOHNSON, Celeste GJOHNSON, Charley W VeteranJOHNSON, Charlotte "Lottie"JOHNSON, Charlotte "Lottie"JOHNSON, Edna MJOHNSON, Emma EJOHNSON, Eunice FJOHNSON, FannyJOHNSON, James BJOHNSON, John NJOHNSON, John AllenJOHNSON, John BJOHNSON, John Franklin "Frank"JOHNSON, KennethJOHNSON, Leverna LeeJOHNSON, LovelyJOHNSON, Lyda May "May"JOHNSON, Mary Esther "Esther"JOHNSON, MollieJOHNSON, Oral MargaretJOHNSON, Roy HowardJOHNSON, Roy Howard (Obit)JOHNSON, SarahJOHNSON, Sarah MaryJOHNSON, Susan Mary (Obit)JOHNSON, Thomas T SrJOHNSON, VivianJOHNSON, Warner C.JOHNSON, William DavidJOHNSON, WilliamJOHNSON, Zella Byrd
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Submitted: 8/24/23 • Approved: 8/24/23 • Last Updated: 8/27/23 • R831368-G0-S3
By Jim Suhr {Joplin} Globe Staff Writer
Three men perhaps took part in the murder of a retired barber whose nude body was found bound and gagged Wednesday in a bedroom of his ransacked Joplin home, a lawman said Thursday. Speculating that Virgil Johnson, 77, was killed sometime Monday during a robbery of his home at 1616 Moffet Ave., lawmen say they are investigating, reports by people who say they saw three men outside the house Monday night. Police composite sketches of the three could be made public today, said police Lt. Jim Houschell, spokesman for the Tri-State Major Case Squad, which is investigating the killing. Police have said robbery probably was the motive for the murder, shocking the man's neighbors and acquaintances who Thursday described Johnson as relatively poor. “I don't think he had much money lying around,” said the Rev. Royce Willerton, former pastor of the South Joplin Christian Church that Johnson and his late wife once attended. “If robbery was the motive, good Luck.” Lawmen were awaiting results of an autopsy ‘Thursday that could pinpoint when and how Johnson
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Though noticeably devastated emotionally and financially by his wife's death in 1969, retired barber Virgil Johnson dug deep for generosity that ultimately won a neighbor boy's heart living on income that barely provided his sustenance, Johnson ended runs to the grocery store by sharing boxes of ice cream bars he bought for Nathan Jones, now 5. “He'd come over and split, the whole box with my little boy,” Tim Jones recalled Thursday of Johnson, 77, 1616 Moffet Ave. Other times, Johnson handed Nathan coins...
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