SPRINGTOWN - Joe Jackson Johnson III, 54, an engineer for KXAS Channel 5, died Saturday, March 11, 2000, in Fort Worth.
Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday at Brown, Owens & Brumley Funeral Directors. Burial: Springtown Cemetery. Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Memorials: may be made to a charity of choice; or to The Boy Scouts of America.
Joe Jackson Johnson III was born on July 11, 1945, in Sioux City, Iowa.
"A new star is in Heaven tonight"...As a toddler, Jack kept sticking things in the wall plug to see the "Duhta-Duhta Man," his name for the Ready Kilowatt Guy...He was always fascinated with electricity..From a young age he would fix things like his friends' radios, etc...As a young adult he made several Jacob's Ladders for his friends...Jack was only unemployed three days from the time he was 13...He worked at 8th Ave. TV, the Army, Tel-Star, and he consulted as the chief electrical technician at "The Cellar" from '69 to '72, working on sound equipment for local groups like the "Cellar Dwellers" and the "ZZ Top" before they were the "ZZ Top"...After getting his FCC liscense, he worked at KXAS, Channel 5, for 26 years as their main technician...Recently, one of his finest hours there was howling at a dog that was stuck in a pipe under Channel 5's parking lot...When the dog howled back, others were able to locate where the dog was so they could dig down and get him out...Jack was preceded in death by his grandparents, Joe and Minnie Johnson of Fort Worth and John and Ethel Gilmer; plus his uncle, Bub Ellis; his aunt, Bonnie Fitch, all four from Nebraska. Jack was a member of Poolville Methodist Church.
Survivors: Mother, Virginia Johnson; father, Joe Johnson Jr.; brother, John Johnson; sister, Judy Fowler; half brother, Joel Johnson; and nieces and nephews, Alan Dunagan, Happy and John Fowler, and Charmaine and Charlene Aransas. Brown, Owens & Brumley 425 S. Henderson St., 335-4557
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Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday at Brown, Owens & Brumley Funeral Directors. Burial: Springtown Cemetery. Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Memorials: may be made to a charity of choice; or to The Boy Scouts of America.
Joe Jackson Johnson III was born on July 11, 1945, in Sioux City, Iowa.
"A new star is in Heaven tonight"...As a toddler, Jack kept sticking things in the wall plug to see the "Duhta-Duhta Man," his name for the Ready Kilowatt Guy...He was always fascinated with electricity..From a young age he would fix things like his friends' radios, etc...As a young adult he made several Jacob's Ladders for his friends...Jack was only unemployed three days from the time he was 13...He worked at 8th Ave. TV, the Army, Tel-Star, and he consulted as the chief electrical technician at "The Cellar" from '69 to '72, working on sound equipment for local groups like the "Cellar Dwellers" and the "ZZ Top" before they were the "ZZ Top"...After getting his FCC liscense, he worked at KXAS, Channel 5, for 26 years as their main technician...Recently, one of his finest hours there was howling at a dog that was stuck in a pipe under Channel 5's parking lot...When the dog howled back, others were able to locate where the dog was so they could dig down and get him out...Jack was preceded in death by his grandparents, Joe and Minnie Johnson of Fort Worth and John and Ethel Gilmer; plus his uncle, Bub Ellis; his aunt, Bonnie Fitch, all four from Nebraska. Jack was a member of Poolville Methodist Church.
Survivors: Mother, Virginia Johnson; father, Joe Johnson Jr.; brother, John Johnson; sister, Judy Fowler; half brother, Joel Johnson; and nieces and nephews, Alan Dunagan, Happy and John Fowler, and Charmaine and Charlene Aransas. Brown, Owens & Brumley 425 S. Henderson St., 335-4557
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Fort Worth Star Telegram - Mar 16, 2000
SPRINGTOWN - Joe Jackson Johnson III, 54, an engineer for KXAS Channel 5, died Saturday, March 11, 2000, in Fort Worth.
Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday at Brown, Owens & Brumley Funeral Directors. Burial: Springtown Cemetery. Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Memorials: may be made to a charity of choice; or to The Boy Scouts of America.
Joe Jackson Johnson III was born on July 11, 1945, in Sioux City, Iowa.
"A new star is in Heaven tonight"...As a toddler, Jack kept sticking things in the wall plug to see the "Duhta-Duhta Man," his name for the Ready Kilowatt Guy...He was always fascinated with electricity..From a young age he would fix things like his friends' radios, etc...As a young adult he made several Jacob's Ladders for his friends...Jack was only unemployed three days from the time he was 13...He worked at 8th Ave. TV, the Army, Tel-Star, and he consulted as the chief electrical technician at "The Cellar" from '69 to '72, working on sound equipment for local groups like the "Cellar Dwellers" and the "ZZ Top" before they were the "ZZ Top"...After getting his FCC liscense, he worked at KXAS, Channel 5, for 26 years as their main technician...Recently, one of his finest hours there was howling at a dog that was stuck in a pipe under Channel 5's parking lot...When the dog howled back, others were able to locate where the dog was so they could dig down and get him out...Jack was preceded in death by his grandparents, Joe and Minnie Johnson of Fort Worth and John and Ethel Gilmer; plus his uncle, Bub Ellis; his aunt, Bonnie Fitch, all four from Nebraska. Jack was a member of Poolville Methodist Church.
Survivors: Mother, Virginia Johnson; father, Joe Johnson Jr.; brother, John Johnson; sister, Judy Fowler; half brother, Joel Johnson; and nieces and nephews, Alan Dunagan, Happy and John Fowler, and Charmaine and Charlene Aransas. Brown, Owens & Brumley 425 S. Henderson St., 335-4557
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Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday at Brown, Owens & Brumley Funeral Directors. Burial: Springtown Cemetery. Visitation: 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Memorials: may be made to a charity of choice; or to The Boy Scouts of America.
Joe Jackson Johnson III was born on July 11, 1945, in Sioux City, Iowa.
"A new star is in Heaven tonight"...As a toddler, Jack kept sticking things in the wall plug to see the "Duhta-Duhta Man," his name for the Ready Kilowatt Guy...He was always fascinated with electricity..From a young age he would fix things like his friends' radios, etc...As a young adult he made several Jacob's Ladders for his friends...Jack was only unemployed three days from the time he was 13...He worked at 8th Ave. TV, the Army, Tel-Star, and he consulted as the chief electrical technician at "The Cellar" from '69 to '72, working on sound equipment for local groups like the "Cellar Dwellers" and the "ZZ Top" before they were the "ZZ Top"...After getting his FCC liscense, he worked at KXAS, Channel 5, for 26 years as their main technician...Recently, one of his finest hours there was howling at a dog that was stuck in a pipe under Channel 5's parking lot...When the dog howled back, others were able to locate where the dog was so they could dig down and get him out...Jack was preceded in death by his grandparents, Joe and Minnie Johnson of Fort Worth and John and Ethel Gilmer; plus his uncle, Bub Ellis; his aunt, Bonnie Fitch, all four from Nebraska. Jack was a member of Poolville Methodist Church.
Survivors: Mother, Virginia Johnson; father, Joe Johnson Jr.; brother, John Johnson; sister, Judy Fowler; half brother, Joel Johnson; and nieces and nephews, Alan Dunagan, Happy and John Fowler, and Charmaine and Charlene Aransas. Brown, Owens & Brumley 425 S. Henderson St., 335-4557
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