Dr. Paul Wardner Johnson was born January 23, 1875, at Stonefort, Ill., and died March 23, 1947, in Clarkston, Wash. He received his B. S. degree from Milton College, Milton, Wis., and his medical degree from the Physicians' and Surgeons' College, a branch of the University of Illinois, in 1902. He went west to begin his practice in medicine the same year. On January 14, 1903, he married Lura Burdick in Milton. Dr. and Mrs. Johnson then settled in Clarkston where he was a pioneer physician. He was a medical, musical, and cultural leader of the Lewiston (Idaho) and Clarkston valley for forty-four years. Mrs. Lura Johnson died in 1932; in 1935 he married Alyce J. Peterson of Clarkston.
Dr. Johnson devoted much time and attention to the study of X-ray and radium, including a six months' course in radiology at Vienna in 1935. The war, with its need of increased medical service by the older men in the profession, interfered with his plans to stop general practice and devote his entire time to his field of specialization. Though the doctor suffered a serious heart attack in the winter of 1945-46, he continued his practice until five months before his death, during which time he was confined to the hospital because of the heart affliction.
Dr. Johnson is survived by his widow; by three daughters, Mrs. Paul Green (Elizabeth), Milton, Wis.; Mrs. George H. Day (Marjorie), Washington, D. C.; and Helen Johnson, now at home after serving in the U. S. Public Health Service in China and the Near East. He is also survived by three brothers, Ewing M., Clarkston, Wash.; Dr. Harry M., Chicago, Ill.; and Frank, Stonefort, Ill.; one sister, Mrs. Nannie Bramlet, Eldorado, Ill., and four grandchildren. Funeral services were held from the Presbyterian church in Clarkston, March 26, with burial in Vineland. - Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune
