Jerry was the only child of Earnest Ludrick and Jewell Estelle (Gill) Johnson. He married Billie Rozelle Alexander and they were the parents of one daughter: Nancy Clair.
∼JERRY MACK JOHNSON
Jerry MacAulay Johnson, 73, a lifelong resident of San Angelo and well-known author, folklorist and entrepreneur, died Monday in a local hospital after a lengthy illness.
Military graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Fairmount Cemetery with Portis Ribble, president of Southwest Bible Institute, and Jim Murphy, minister of Northside Church of Christ, officiating. Robert Massie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Jerry Mack was born Oct. 23, 1927, in San Angelo. His father, Earnest L. Johnson, was an earlyday Realtor, and his mother, the former Jewell Gill Johnson, was a schoolteacher. When his father became ill, Jerry Mack had his childhood disabilities removed so that he could operate the real estate office. He was a licensed real estate broker at the age of 13, and held one of the oldest continuous real estate licenses in Texas.
When World War II started, Jerry Mack got family permission to join the Merchant Marines at the age of 16. He served as an ordinary seaman on rusty ocean freighters carrying war material to Russia, England and other foreign ports. When he reached his 17th birthday, he enlisted in the Navy Seabees where he served with the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps amphibious operations in the invasion of Okinawa. He was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received during a Japanese Kamikaze attack, the Bronze Star Medal and a Navy Unit Citation.
After the war, Jerry Mack attended Sul Ross State University at Alpine where he received bachelors and masters degrees in agriculture. He also attended an auctioneers school in Iowa, worked as a schoolteacher for a year before becoming a traveling representative for A.R. Nisbet and Sons, a farm machinery manufacturing firm. His territory was throughout the south, southeast and southwestern states. While working for Nisbet and later as co-owner and sales manager for Supreme Feed Mill of Slaton, Jerry Mack started his vast collection of facts and folklore which led to his writing seven books, including Country Wisdom, which was on the New York Times best-seller list for a number of weeks and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
On May 25, 1956, Jerry Mack and Billie Alexander Johnson were married in San Angelo.
A longtime member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Texas Chapter 740 of San Angelo, Jerry Mack was honored last year when the group nominated him for the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge national award program in the adult community category. He was also a member of the American Mensa organization and the First United Methodist Church of San Angelo.
In recent years, Jerry Mack was an advertising sales representative for the Ranch and Rural Living Magazine and for the San Angelo Standard-Times.
He is survived by his wife, Billie Johnson of San Angelo; daughter, Nancy Dupree, and son-in-law, Craig Dupree, of Victoria; four special sisters-in-law, Jessie Muriel Boatwright, Queenie Wade, Mary Crotwell and Thelma Harris, all of San Angelo; two special brothers-in-law, Ellis Wade and Ordie Crotwell Jr., both of San Angelo; and one cousin, Jack Graves of Midwest City, Okla.
Though I go to sleep in darkness,
I will wake in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly,
To be fearful of the night.
Anonymous
∼JERRY MACK JOHNSON
Jerry MacAulay Johnson, 73, a lifelong resident of San Angelo and well-known author, folklorist and entrepreneur, died Monday in a local hospital after a lengthy illness.
Military graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Fairmount Cemetery with Portis Ribble, president of Southwest Bible Institute, and Jim Murphy, minister of Northside Church of Christ, officiating. Robert Massie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Jerry Mack was born Oct. 23, 1927, in San Angelo. His father, Earnest L. Johnson, was an earlyday Realtor, and his mother, the former Jewell Gill Johnson, was a schoolteacher. When his father became ill, Jerry Mack had his childhood disabilities removed so that he could operate the real estate office. He was a licensed real estate broker at the age of 13, and held one of the oldest continuous real estate licenses in Texas.
When World War II started, Jerry Mack got family permission to join the Merchant Marines at the age of 16. He served as an ordinary seaman on rusty ocean freighters carrying war material to Russia, England and other foreign ports. When he reached his 17th birthday, he enlisted in the Navy Seabees where he served with the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps amphibious operations in the invasion of Okinawa. He was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received during a Japanese Kamikaze attack, the Bronze Star Medal and a Navy Unit Citation.
After the war, Jerry Mack attended Sul Ross State University at Alpine where he received bachelors and masters degrees in agriculture. He also attended an auctioneers school in Iowa, worked as a schoolteacher for a year before becoming a traveling representative for A.R. Nisbet and Sons, a farm machinery manufacturing firm. His territory was throughout the south, southeast and southwestern states. While working for Nisbet and later as co-owner and sales manager for Supreme Feed Mill of Slaton, Jerry Mack started his vast collection of facts and folklore which led to his writing seven books, including Country Wisdom, which was on the New York Times best-seller list for a number of weeks and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
On May 25, 1956, Jerry Mack and Billie Alexander Johnson were married in San Angelo.
A longtime member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Texas Chapter 740 of San Angelo, Jerry Mack was honored last year when the group nominated him for the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge national award program in the adult community category. He was also a member of the American Mensa organization and the First United Methodist Church of San Angelo.
In recent years, Jerry Mack was an advertising sales representative for the Ranch and Rural Living Magazine and for the San Angelo Standard-Times.
He is survived by his wife, Billie Johnson of San Angelo; daughter, Nancy Dupree, and son-in-law, Craig Dupree, of Victoria; four special sisters-in-law, Jessie Muriel Boatwright, Queenie Wade, Mary Crotwell and Thelma Harris, all of San Angelo; two special brothers-in-law, Ellis Wade and Ordie Crotwell Jr., both of San Angelo; and one cousin, Jack Graves of Midwest City, Okla.
Though I go to sleep in darkness,
I will wake in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly,
To be fearful of the night.
Anonymous
Jerry was the only child of Earnest Ludrick and Jewell Estelle (Gill) Johnson. He married Billie Rozelle Alexander and they were the parents of one daughter: Nancy Clair.
∼JERRY MACK JOHNSON
Jerry MacAulay Johnson, 73, a lifelong resident of San Angelo and well-known author, folklorist and entrepreneur, died Monday in a local hospital after a lengthy illness.
Military graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Fairmount Cemetery with Portis Ribble, president of Southwest Bible Institute, and Jim Murphy, minister of Northside Church of Christ, officiating. Robert Massie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Jerry Mack was born Oct. 23, 1927, in San Angelo. His father, Earnest L. Johnson, was an earlyday Realtor, and his mother, the former Jewell Gill Johnson, was a schoolteacher. When his father became ill, Jerry Mack had his childhood disabilities removed so that he could operate the real estate office. He was a licensed real estate broker at the age of 13, and held one of the oldest continuous real estate licenses in Texas.
When World War II started, Jerry Mack got family permission to join the Merchant Marines at the age of 16. He served as an ordinary seaman on rusty ocean freighters carrying war material to Russia, England and other foreign ports. When he reached his 17th birthday, he enlisted in the Navy Seabees where he served with the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps amphibious operations in the invasion of Okinawa. He was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received during a Japanese Kamikaze attack, the Bronze Star Medal and a Navy Unit Citation.
After the war, Jerry Mack attended Sul Ross State University at Alpine where he received bachelors and masters degrees in agriculture. He also attended an auctioneers school in Iowa, worked as a schoolteacher for a year before becoming a traveling representative for A.R. Nisbet and Sons, a farm machinery manufacturing firm. His territory was throughout the south, southeast and southwestern states. While working for Nisbet and later as co-owner and sales manager for Supreme Feed Mill of Slaton, Jerry Mack started his vast collection of facts and folklore which led to his writing seven books, including Country Wisdom, which was on the New York Times best-seller list for a number of weeks and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
On May 25, 1956, Jerry Mack and Billie Alexander Johnson were married in San Angelo.
A longtime member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Texas Chapter 740 of San Angelo, Jerry Mack was honored last year when the group nominated him for the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge national award program in the adult community category. He was also a member of the American Mensa organization and the First United Methodist Church of San Angelo.
In recent years, Jerry Mack was an advertising sales representative for the Ranch and Rural Living Magazine and for the San Angelo Standard-Times.
He is survived by his wife, Billie Johnson of San Angelo; daughter, Nancy Dupree, and son-in-law, Craig Dupree, of Victoria; four special sisters-in-law, Jessie Muriel Boatwright, Queenie Wade, Mary Crotwell and Thelma Harris, all of San Angelo; two special brothers-in-law, Ellis Wade and Ordie Crotwell Jr., both of San Angelo; and one cousin, Jack Graves of Midwest City, Okla.
Though I go to sleep in darkness,
I will wake in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly,
To be fearful of the night.
Anonymous
∼JERRY MACK JOHNSON
Jerry MacAulay Johnson, 73, a lifelong resident of San Angelo and well-known author, folklorist and entrepreneur, died Monday in a local hospital after a lengthy illness.
Military graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Fairmount Cemetery with Portis Ribble, president of Southwest Bible Institute, and Jim Murphy, minister of Northside Church of Christ, officiating. Robert Massie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Jerry Mack was born Oct. 23, 1927, in San Angelo. His father, Earnest L. Johnson, was an earlyday Realtor, and his mother, the former Jewell Gill Johnson, was a schoolteacher. When his father became ill, Jerry Mack had his childhood disabilities removed so that he could operate the real estate office. He was a licensed real estate broker at the age of 13, and held one of the oldest continuous real estate licenses in Texas.
When World War II started, Jerry Mack got family permission to join the Merchant Marines at the age of 16. He served as an ordinary seaman on rusty ocean freighters carrying war material to Russia, England and other foreign ports. When he reached his 17th birthday, he enlisted in the Navy Seabees where he served with the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps amphibious operations in the invasion of Okinawa. He was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received during a Japanese Kamikaze attack, the Bronze Star Medal and a Navy Unit Citation.
After the war, Jerry Mack attended Sul Ross State University at Alpine where he received bachelors and masters degrees in agriculture. He also attended an auctioneers school in Iowa, worked as a schoolteacher for a year before becoming a traveling representative for A.R. Nisbet and Sons, a farm machinery manufacturing firm. His territory was throughout the south, southeast and southwestern states. While working for Nisbet and later as co-owner and sales manager for Supreme Feed Mill of Slaton, Jerry Mack started his vast collection of facts and folklore which led to his writing seven books, including Country Wisdom, which was on the New York Times best-seller list for a number of weeks and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
On May 25, 1956, Jerry Mack and Billie Alexander Johnson were married in San Angelo.
A longtime member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Texas Chapter 740 of San Angelo, Jerry Mack was honored last year when the group nominated him for the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge national award program in the adult community category. He was also a member of the American Mensa organization and the First United Methodist Church of San Angelo.
In recent years, Jerry Mack was an advertising sales representative for the Ranch and Rural Living Magazine and for the San Angelo Standard-Times.
He is survived by his wife, Billie Johnson of San Angelo; daughter, Nancy Dupree, and son-in-law, Craig Dupree, of Victoria; four special sisters-in-law, Jessie Muriel Boatwright, Queenie Wade, Mary Crotwell and Thelma Harris, all of San Angelo; two special brothers-in-law, Ellis Wade and Ordie Crotwell Jr., both of San Angelo; and one cousin, Jack Graves of Midwest City, Okla.
Though I go to sleep in darkness,
I will wake in perfect light.
I have loved the stars too fondly,
To be fearful of the night.
Anonymous
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