C. BOSWORTH (BOS) JOHNSON, JR., 85, died Sunday, November 23, 2014 at Woodlands Retirement Community. He was the son of the late Clyde Bosworth and Elizabeth Lee Reese Johnson. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Dorothy Rensch Johnson, daughters Dr. Elizabeth Johnson Paulsen, Decatur, Ga.; Carol Anne Walton, Louisville, Ky.; Susan Johnson, Charlotte, N.C.; Janice Lanning, Thomasville, N.C.; son Robert, of Huntington; and nine grandchildren: Adam, Jacquelyn, Max and Drew of Thomasville, Matt and Reese of Louisville, Grace and Sarah of Decatur, and Ginny of Huntington. Born March 9, 1929 in Charleston, W.Va., Bos earned his A.B. degree from West Virginia University (1949), and his M.A. from Marshall University (1969). After early broadcasting jobs in Bluefield and Morgantown, W.Va., he joined WSAZ-AM-TV Huntington-Charleston in 1952. Following a variety of assignments, he was named News Director and principal anchor in 1960, a position he occupied until 1976 when he joined Marshall University as Associate Professor of Journalism, leaving there in 1988 to join Charles Ryan Associates as vice president. He served as president of Cabell-Wayne United Community Services (United Way) (1962-63), chairman of the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce (1980), member and chairman (1977-88) of the WV Educational Broadcasting Authority (which named its board room in his honor), and as board member of Leadership Tri-State, Marshall University Library Associates, and formerly board member of Cammack Children's Center and the Cerebral Palsy Council. He was appointed to the Huntington Board of Zoning Appeals in 2006. Bos was treasurer (1968-73) and president (1973-74) of the Radio Television News Director's Association. He received the Preceptor Award from San Francisco State University, Distinguished Service Award from the Marshall Journalism Alumni Association, Phil Vogel Memorial Award from the WV Associated Press, Distinguished Broadcaster Award from the WV Broadcasters Association, the Silver Circle Award from National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the W. Va. Associated Press Lifetime Achievement Award, and membership in the inaugural West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He was ordained an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in 1958, and served as Sunday School teacher, lay preacher and Session member. He chaired the advisory board of Presbyterian Survey (now Presbyterians Today) and in 1997 was moderator of the Presbytery of West Virginia.
Memorial service will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, by The Rev. Skip Seibel. Friends may call Tuesday 4 to 6 p.m. at Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary. The family requests memorial gifts be made to the Campus Christian Center, 1 John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755. Family guestbook at www.klingelcarpenter.com.∼Veteran Huntington newscaster Bos Johnson dies
Nov. 23, 2014 @ 11:52 PM
Longtime local broadcaster and public relations executive Bos Johnson died Sunday, according to WSAZ.
Johnson retired in 2005 after a 53-year career in communications.
His first 28 years were spent in commercial broadcasting, 24 of those with WSAZ-TV Charleston-Huntington.
As television news came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, Johnson played the same role for the Tri-State that CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite did on the national stage, Jim Casto, retired associate editor of The Herald-Dispatch, wrote in an article for Huntington Quarterly.
“The authoritative Cronkite covered the big stories of the day – the Vietnam War, Watergate, the slayings of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In much the same reassuring fashion, Johnson detailed for WSAZ’s viewers the region’s big stories,” Casto wrote.
It was his voice that repeatedly interrupted regular programming on the long night of Nov. 14, 1970, and his face that mirrored the sorrow felt by the community as he kept viewers informed after a plane crash that claimed 75 Marshall University football players, coaches and fans.
Johnson once said the Marshall plane crash was by far the “saddest” news story of his eventful career.
“I don’t really understand how I was able to do it now,” Johnson told The Herald-Dispatch in 1999.
A native of Charleston, Johnson came to Huntington and WSAZ in 1952. He was named news director in 1960.
Later, he served as an associate professor of broadcast journalism in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshall University. During his academic career, he also served as senior consultant for the Charles Ryan Associates public relations company, conducting media workshops nationwide. In 1988, he left Marshall to become a vice president of the Ryan firm, moving to part-time work in the early 1990s.
Johnson and his wife, Dotty, also served the broader community by their involvements with such community organizations as Habitat for Humanity, the former Barnett Child Care Center and First Presbyterian Church. He was a inducted to the City of Huntington Foundation Wall of Fame in 1988.
He leaves behind his wife, Dotty, and five children including WSAZ anchor Rob Johnson and four daughters -- Beth, a professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia; Carol Anne, a psychiatric social worker in Louisville, Ky.; Susan, a school administrator in North Carolina; and Janice, a speech pathologist in North Carolina. They have nine grandchildren.
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C. BOSWORTH (BOS) JOHNSON, JR., 85, died Sunday, November 23, 2014 at Woodlands Retirement Community. He was the son of the late Clyde Bosworth and Elizabeth Lee Reese Johnson.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Dorothy Rensch Johnson, daughters Dr. Elizabeth Johnson Paulsen, Decatur, Ga.; Carol Anne Walton, Louisville, Ky.; Susan Johnson, Charlotte, N.C.; Janice Lanning, Thomasville, N.C.; son Robert, of Huntington; and nine grandchildren: Adam, Jacquelyn, Max and Drew of Thomasville, Matt and Reese of Louisville, Grace and Sarah of Decatur, and Ginny of Huntington.
Born March 9, 1929 in Charleston, W.Va., Bos earned his A.B. degree from West Virginia University (1949), and his M.A. from Marshall University (1969). After early broadcasting jobs in Bluefield and Morgantown, W.Va., he joined WSAZ-AM-TV Huntington-Charleston in 1952. Following a variety of assignments, he was named News Director and principal anchor in 1960, a position he occupied until 1976 when he joined Marshall University as Associate Professor of Journalism, leaving there in 1988 to join Charles Ryan Associates as vice president.
He served as president of Cabell-Wayne United Community Services (United Way) (1962-63), chairman of the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce (1980), member and chairman (1977-88) of the WV Educational Broadcasting Authority (which named its board room in his honor), and as board member of Leadership Tri-State, Marshall University Library Associates, and formerly board member of Cammack Children's Center and the Cerebral Palsy Council. He was appointed to the Huntington Board of Zoning Appeals in 2006. Bos was treasurer (1968-73) and president (1973-74) of the Radio Television News Director's Association.
He received the Preceptor Award from San Francisco State University, Distinguished Service Award from the Marshall Journalism Alumni Association, Phil Vogel Memorial Award from the WV Associated Press, Distinguished Broadcaster Award from the WV Broadcasters Association, the Silver Circle Award from National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the W. Va. Associated Press Lifetime Achievement Award, and membership in the inaugural West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
He was ordained an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in 1958, and served as Sunday School teacher, lay preacher and Session member. He chaired the advisory board of Presbyterian Survey (now Presbyterians Today) and in 1997 was moderator of the Presbytery of West Virginia.
Memorial service will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, by The Rev. Skip Seibel. Friends may call Tuesday 4 to 6 p.m. at Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary. The family requests memorial gifts be made to the Campus Christian Center, 1 John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755. Family guestbook at www.klingelcarpenter.com. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/herald-dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=c-bosworth-johnson-bos&pid=173274854#sthash.jmY0Rjy8.dpuf
Memorial service will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, by The Rev. Skip Seibel. Friends may call Tuesday 4 to 6 p.m. at Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary. The family requests memorial gifts be made to the Campus Christian Center, 1 John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755. Family guestbook at www.klingelcarpenter.com.∼Veteran Huntington newscaster Bos Johnson dies
Nov. 23, 2014 @ 11:52 PM
Longtime local broadcaster and public relations executive Bos Johnson died Sunday, according to WSAZ.
Johnson retired in 2005 after a 53-year career in communications.
His first 28 years were spent in commercial broadcasting, 24 of those with WSAZ-TV Charleston-Huntington.
As television news came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, Johnson played the same role for the Tri-State that CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite did on the national stage, Jim Casto, retired associate editor of The Herald-Dispatch, wrote in an article for Huntington Quarterly.
“The authoritative Cronkite covered the big stories of the day – the Vietnam War, Watergate, the slayings of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In much the same reassuring fashion, Johnson detailed for WSAZ’s viewers the region’s big stories,” Casto wrote.
It was his voice that repeatedly interrupted regular programming on the long night of Nov. 14, 1970, and his face that mirrored the sorrow felt by the community as he kept viewers informed after a plane crash that claimed 75 Marshall University football players, coaches and fans.
Johnson once said the Marshall plane crash was by far the “saddest” news story of his eventful career.
“I don’t really understand how I was able to do it now,” Johnson told The Herald-Dispatch in 1999.
A native of Charleston, Johnson came to Huntington and WSAZ in 1952. He was named news director in 1960.
Later, he served as an associate professor of broadcast journalism in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshall University. During his academic career, he also served as senior consultant for the Charles Ryan Associates public relations company, conducting media workshops nationwide. In 1988, he left Marshall to become a vice president of the Ryan firm, moving to part-time work in the early 1990s.
Johnson and his wife, Dotty, also served the broader community by their involvements with such community organizations as Habitat for Humanity, the former Barnett Child Care Center and First Presbyterian Church. He was a inducted to the City of Huntington Foundation Wall of Fame in 1988.
He leaves behind his wife, Dotty, and five children including WSAZ anchor Rob Johnson and four daughters -- Beth, a professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia; Carol Anne, a psychiatric social worker in Louisville, Ky.; Susan, a school administrator in North Carolina; and Janice, a speech pathologist in North Carolina. They have nine grandchildren.
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C. BOSWORTH (BOS) JOHNSON, JR., 85, died Sunday, November 23, 2014 at Woodlands Retirement Community. He was the son of the late Clyde Bosworth and Elizabeth Lee Reese Johnson.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Dorothy Rensch Johnson, daughters Dr. Elizabeth Johnson Paulsen, Decatur, Ga.; Carol Anne Walton, Louisville, Ky.; Susan Johnson, Charlotte, N.C.; Janice Lanning, Thomasville, N.C.; son Robert, of Huntington; and nine grandchildren: Adam, Jacquelyn, Max and Drew of Thomasville, Matt and Reese of Louisville, Grace and Sarah of Decatur, and Ginny of Huntington.
Born March 9, 1929 in Charleston, W.Va., Bos earned his A.B. degree from West Virginia University (1949), and his M.A. from Marshall University (1969). After early broadcasting jobs in Bluefield and Morgantown, W.Va., he joined WSAZ-AM-TV Huntington-Charleston in 1952. Following a variety of assignments, he was named News Director and principal anchor in 1960, a position he occupied until 1976 when he joined Marshall University as Associate Professor of Journalism, leaving there in 1988 to join Charles Ryan Associates as vice president.
He served as president of Cabell-Wayne United Community Services (United Way) (1962-63), chairman of the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce (1980), member and chairman (1977-88) of the WV Educational Broadcasting Authority (which named its board room in his honor), and as board member of Leadership Tri-State, Marshall University Library Associates, and formerly board member of Cammack Children's Center and the Cerebral Palsy Council. He was appointed to the Huntington Board of Zoning Appeals in 2006. Bos was treasurer (1968-73) and president (1973-74) of the Radio Television News Director's Association.
He received the Preceptor Award from San Francisco State University, Distinguished Service Award from the Marshall Journalism Alumni Association, Phil Vogel Memorial Award from the WV Associated Press, Distinguished Broadcaster Award from the WV Broadcasters Association, the Silver Circle Award from National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the W. Va. Associated Press Lifetime Achievement Award, and membership in the inaugural West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
He was ordained an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in 1958, and served as Sunday School teacher, lay preacher and Session member. He chaired the advisory board of Presbyterian Survey (now Presbyterians Today) and in 1997 was moderator of the Presbytery of West Virginia.
Memorial service will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, by The Rev. Skip Seibel. Friends may call Tuesday 4 to 6 p.m. at Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary. The family requests memorial gifts be made to the Campus Christian Center, 1 John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755. Family guestbook at www.klingelcarpenter.com. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/herald-dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=c-bosworth-johnson-bos&pid=173274854#sthash.jmY0Rjy8.dpuf
C. BOSWORTH (BOS) JOHNSON, JR., 85, died Sunday, November 23, 2014 at Woodlands Retirement Community. He was the son of the late Clyde Bosworth and Elizabeth Lee Reese Johnson. He is survived by his wife, Dr. Dorothy Rensch Johnson, daughters Dr. Elizabeth Johnson Paulsen, Decatur, Ga.; Carol Anne Walton, Louisville, Ky.; Susan Johnson, Charlotte, N.C.; Janice Lanning, Thomasville, N.C.; son Robert, of Huntington; and nine grandchildren: Adam, Jacquelyn, Max and Drew of Thomasville, Matt and Reese of Louisville, Grace and Sarah of Decatur, and Ginny of Huntington. Born March 9, 1929 in Charleston, W.Va., Bos earned his A.B. degree from West Virginia University (1949), and his M.A. from Marshall University (1969). After early broadcasting jobs in Bluefield and Morgantown, W.Va., he joined WSAZ-AM-TV Huntington-Charleston in 1952. Following a variety of assignments, he was named News Director and principal anchor in 1960, a position he occupied until 1976 when he joined Marshall University as Associate Professor of Journalism, leaving there in 1988 to join Charles Ryan Associates as vice president. He served as president of Cabell-Wayne United Community Services (United Way) (1962-63), chairman of the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce (1980), member and chairman (1977-88) of the WV Educational Broadcasting Authority (which named its board room in his honor), and as board member of Leadership Tri-State, Marshall University Library Associates, and formerly board member of Cammack Children's Center and the Cerebral Palsy Council. He was appointed to the Huntington Board of Zoning Appeals in 2006. Bos was treasurer (1968-73) and president (1973-74) of the Radio Television News Director's Association. He received the Preceptor Award from San Francisco State University, Distinguished Service Award from the Marshall Journalism Alumni Association, Phil Vogel Memorial Award from the WV Associated Press, Distinguished Broadcaster Award from the WV Broadcasters Association, the Silver Circle Award from National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the W. Va. Associated Press Lifetime Achievement Award, and membership in the inaugural West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He was ordained an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in 1958, and served as Sunday School teacher, lay preacher and Session member. He chaired the advisory board of Presbyterian Survey (now Presbyterians Today) and in 1997 was moderator of the Presbytery of West Virginia.
Memorial service will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, by The Rev. Skip Seibel. Friends may call Tuesday 4 to 6 p.m. at Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary. The family requests memorial gifts be made to the Campus Christian Center, 1 John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755. Family guestbook at www.klingelcarpenter.com.∼Veteran Huntington newscaster Bos Johnson dies
Nov. 23, 2014 @ 11:52 PM
Longtime local broadcaster and public relations executive Bos Johnson died Sunday, according to WSAZ.
Johnson retired in 2005 after a 53-year career in communications.
His first 28 years were spent in commercial broadcasting, 24 of those with WSAZ-TV Charleston-Huntington.
As television news came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, Johnson played the same role for the Tri-State that CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite did on the national stage, Jim Casto, retired associate editor of The Herald-Dispatch, wrote in an article for Huntington Quarterly.
“The authoritative Cronkite covered the big stories of the day – the Vietnam War, Watergate, the slayings of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In much the same reassuring fashion, Johnson detailed for WSAZ’s viewers the region’s big stories,” Casto wrote.
It was his voice that repeatedly interrupted regular programming on the long night of Nov. 14, 1970, and his face that mirrored the sorrow felt by the community as he kept viewers informed after a plane crash that claimed 75 Marshall University football players, coaches and fans.
Johnson once said the Marshall plane crash was by far the “saddest” news story of his eventful career.
“I don’t really understand how I was able to do it now,” Johnson told The Herald-Dispatch in 1999.
A native of Charleston, Johnson came to Huntington and WSAZ in 1952. He was named news director in 1960.
Later, he served as an associate professor of broadcast journalism in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshall University. During his academic career, he also served as senior consultant for the Charles Ryan Associates public relations company, conducting media workshops nationwide. In 1988, he left Marshall to become a vice president of the Ryan firm, moving to part-time work in the early 1990s.
Johnson and his wife, Dotty, also served the broader community by their involvements with such community organizations as Habitat for Humanity, the former Barnett Child Care Center and First Presbyterian Church. He was a inducted to the City of Huntington Foundation Wall of Fame in 1988.
He leaves behind his wife, Dotty, and five children including WSAZ anchor Rob Johnson and four daughters -- Beth, a professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia; Carol Anne, a psychiatric social worker in Louisville, Ky.; Susan, a school administrator in North Carolina; and Janice, a speech pathologist in North Carolina. They have nine grandchildren.
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C. BOSWORTH (BOS) JOHNSON, JR., 85, died Sunday, November 23, 2014 at Woodlands Retirement Community. He was the son of the late Clyde Bosworth and Elizabeth Lee Reese Johnson.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Dorothy Rensch Johnson, daughters Dr. Elizabeth Johnson Paulsen, Decatur, Ga.; Carol Anne Walton, Louisville, Ky.; Susan Johnson, Charlotte, N.C.; Janice Lanning, Thomasville, N.C.; son Robert, of Huntington; and nine grandchildren: Adam, Jacquelyn, Max and Drew of Thomasville, Matt and Reese of Louisville, Grace and Sarah of Decatur, and Ginny of Huntington.
Born March 9, 1929 in Charleston, W.Va., Bos earned his A.B. degree from West Virginia University (1949), and his M.A. from Marshall University (1969). After early broadcasting jobs in Bluefield and Morgantown, W.Va., he joined WSAZ-AM-TV Huntington-Charleston in 1952. Following a variety of assignments, he was named News Director and principal anchor in 1960, a position he occupied until 1976 when he joined Marshall University as Associate Professor of Journalism, leaving there in 1988 to join Charles Ryan Associates as vice president.
He served as president of Cabell-Wayne United Community Services (United Way) (1962-63), chairman of the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce (1980), member and chairman (1977-88) of the WV Educational Broadcasting Authority (which named its board room in his honor), and as board member of Leadership Tri-State, Marshall University Library Associates, and formerly board member of Cammack Children's Center and the Cerebral Palsy Council. He was appointed to the Huntington Board of Zoning Appeals in 2006. Bos was treasurer (1968-73) and president (1973-74) of the Radio Television News Director's Association.
He received the Preceptor Award from San Francisco State University, Distinguished Service Award from the Marshall Journalism Alumni Association, Phil Vogel Memorial Award from the WV Associated Press, Distinguished Broadcaster Award from the WV Broadcasters Association, the Silver Circle Award from National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the W. Va. Associated Press Lifetime Achievement Award, and membership in the inaugural West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
He was ordained an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in 1958, and served as Sunday School teacher, lay preacher and Session member. He chaired the advisory board of Presbyterian Survey (now Presbyterians Today) and in 1997 was moderator of the Presbytery of West Virginia.
Memorial service will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, by The Rev. Skip Seibel. Friends may call Tuesday 4 to 6 p.m. at Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary. The family requests memorial gifts be made to the Campus Christian Center, 1 John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755. Family guestbook at www.klingelcarpenter.com. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/herald-dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=c-bosworth-johnson-bos&pid=173274854#sthash.jmY0Rjy8.dpuf
Memorial service will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, by The Rev. Skip Seibel. Friends may call Tuesday 4 to 6 p.m. at Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary. The family requests memorial gifts be made to the Campus Christian Center, 1 John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755. Family guestbook at www.klingelcarpenter.com.∼Veteran Huntington newscaster Bos Johnson dies
Nov. 23, 2014 @ 11:52 PM
Longtime local broadcaster and public relations executive Bos Johnson died Sunday, according to WSAZ.
Johnson retired in 2005 after a 53-year career in communications.
His first 28 years were spent in commercial broadcasting, 24 of those with WSAZ-TV Charleston-Huntington.
As television news came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, Johnson played the same role for the Tri-State that CBS television news anchor Walter Cronkite did on the national stage, Jim Casto, retired associate editor of The Herald-Dispatch, wrote in an article for Huntington Quarterly.
“The authoritative Cronkite covered the big stories of the day – the Vietnam War, Watergate, the slayings of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In much the same reassuring fashion, Johnson detailed for WSAZ’s viewers the region’s big stories,” Casto wrote.
It was his voice that repeatedly interrupted regular programming on the long night of Nov. 14, 1970, and his face that mirrored the sorrow felt by the community as he kept viewers informed after a plane crash that claimed 75 Marshall University football players, coaches and fans.
Johnson once said the Marshall plane crash was by far the “saddest” news story of his eventful career.
“I don’t really understand how I was able to do it now,” Johnson told The Herald-Dispatch in 1999.
A native of Charleston, Johnson came to Huntington and WSAZ in 1952. He was named news director in 1960.
Later, he served as an associate professor of broadcast journalism in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshall University. During his academic career, he also served as senior consultant for the Charles Ryan Associates public relations company, conducting media workshops nationwide. In 1988, he left Marshall to become a vice president of the Ryan firm, moving to part-time work in the early 1990s.
Johnson and his wife, Dotty, also served the broader community by their involvements with such community organizations as Habitat for Humanity, the former Barnett Child Care Center and First Presbyterian Church. He was a inducted to the City of Huntington Foundation Wall of Fame in 1988.
He leaves behind his wife, Dotty, and five children including WSAZ anchor Rob Johnson and four daughters -- Beth, a professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia; Carol Anne, a psychiatric social worker in Louisville, Ky.; Susan, a school administrator in North Carolina; and Janice, a speech pathologist in North Carolina. They have nine grandchildren.
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Obituary
C. BOSWORTH (BOS) JOHNSON, JR., 85, died Sunday, November 23, 2014 at Woodlands Retirement Community. He was the son of the late Clyde Bosworth and Elizabeth Lee Reese Johnson.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Dorothy Rensch Johnson, daughters Dr. Elizabeth Johnson Paulsen, Decatur, Ga.; Carol Anne Walton, Louisville, Ky.; Susan Johnson, Charlotte, N.C.; Janice Lanning, Thomasville, N.C.; son Robert, of Huntington; and nine grandchildren: Adam, Jacquelyn, Max and Drew of Thomasville, Matt and Reese of Louisville, Grace and Sarah of Decatur, and Ginny of Huntington.
Born March 9, 1929 in Charleston, W.Va., Bos earned his A.B. degree from West Virginia University (1949), and his M.A. from Marshall University (1969). After early broadcasting jobs in Bluefield and Morgantown, W.Va., he joined WSAZ-AM-TV Huntington-Charleston in 1952. Following a variety of assignments, he was named News Director and principal anchor in 1960, a position he occupied until 1976 when he joined Marshall University as Associate Professor of Journalism, leaving there in 1988 to join Charles Ryan Associates as vice president.
He served as president of Cabell-Wayne United Community Services (United Way) (1962-63), chairman of the Huntington Regional Chamber of Commerce (1980), member and chairman (1977-88) of the WV Educational Broadcasting Authority (which named its board room in his honor), and as board member of Leadership Tri-State, Marshall University Library Associates, and formerly board member of Cammack Children's Center and the Cerebral Palsy Council. He was appointed to the Huntington Board of Zoning Appeals in 2006. Bos was treasurer (1968-73) and president (1973-74) of the Radio Television News Director's Association.
He received the Preceptor Award from San Francisco State University, Distinguished Service Award from the Marshall Journalism Alumni Association, Phil Vogel Memorial Award from the WV Associated Press, Distinguished Broadcaster Award from the WV Broadcasters Association, the Silver Circle Award from National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the W. Va. Associated Press Lifetime Achievement Award, and membership in the inaugural West Virginia Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
He was ordained an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in 1958, and served as Sunday School teacher, lay preacher and Session member. He chaired the advisory board of Presbyterian Survey (now Presbyterians Today) and in 1997 was moderator of the Presbytery of West Virginia.
Memorial service will be conducted 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 26, 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, by The Rev. Skip Seibel. Friends may call Tuesday 4 to 6 p.m. at Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary. The family requests memorial gifts be made to the Campus Christian Center, 1 John Marshall Drive, Huntington, WV 25755. Family guestbook at www.klingelcarpenter.com. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/herald-dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=c-bosworth-johnson-bos&pid=173274854#sthash.jmY0Rjy8.dpuf
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