12/27/11 - NNHS Newsletter

December 23, 2011

Dear Belinda, Bill and family,

I am so sorry to learn of your loss. May you be comforted by memories and may God grant you peace and strength. Sincerely,

December 27, 2011

Mr. Johnson and Family, God bless you during this time...I know you all are staunch believers who glory in the fact that Papa Johnson has been healed and made whole in Heaven!

December 27, 2011

Mrs. Johnson, Bill, Belinda and family , I have such wonderful memories of Mr. Johnson; he was a GREAT neighbor and true friend to my family and me. May GOD bless everyone of you.
Alan Daugherty

~ Alan Daugherty, Hampton, Virginia

December 27, 2011

Mrs. Johnson and family,
I am sorry to read about your loss. I look at the photo often (you, Mr. Johnson and the Doggie)and think of you all.
He now joins Mr. Lucas and "God's" band.
My deepest sympathy.
Pam Hall (friend from DMV-Hampton)

December 28, 2011

Dad - had a great life and he loved his family and his friends -- He added and gave joy to all -- He is in Heaven now and will add for our Savior Jesus - We loved him and he loved us -- I know his favorite playing music will be a joy in Heaven - thank you, Dad, you blessed us and all with Hope and Love -- Bill Johnson

~ Bill Johnson, Gloucester, Virginia

December 28, 2011

SO SAD TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR LOSS; HE WAS MY FATHER'S VERY GOOD FRIEND. MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY

~ MONI OWENS, HAMPTON, Virginia

December 29, 2011

Dear Ann and family,

My heartfelt sympathy for the loss of Charlie. You and Charlie were a part of my life as long as I can remember. Mama thought of both of you as her best friends. I remember, into my adult life, her going to sing with Charlie's combo, the many gatherings over the years, the vacations all of you took together, and the friendship that lasted from her childhood until she left us in 2004. Ann, maybe they're playing at a country club dance right now! I'm sorry I wasn't able to attend the service, but I was thinking of all of you and the many sweet memories I have growing up with you and Charlie in my life. I'll never forget those times, and I am blessed to have known you and your family.

All my love,

December 30, 2011

			NEWPORT NEWS - Charles Edwin Johnson Sr., passed away Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. He was born April 9, 1923, in his grandmother's home in Newport News. He was an only child. He lived most of his life in Newport News and Hampton, and graduated from Newport News High School in 1947, after enlisting in the U.S. Navy. He was a born-again Christian, who served the Lord at Liberty Baptist Church in Hampton, where he taught Sunday school for 18 years and was head usher for six years. He was a musician all his life and leader of the Charlie Johnson Combo. Charles was a Blue Lodge Master Mason, a member of Colonial Chapter #40 OES, and was past president of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees. He graduated from NASA Apprentice School, in 1955, and served as a supervisor, then section head for Materials Processing, which contributed to the Lunar and Viking projects. He retired after 39-1/2 years. He was a Boy Scout leader for 10 years and was co-owner of Pembroke Marine, in Hampton, with his son, Bill.
	Charles Johnson

Hi Carol, I was pleased to see that Fred Field (June '45 - of CA) remembered Charlie Johnson and that you also gave space to Charlie's obituary. It is very interesting that, even though I played music a few times with Charlie, I never knew that he had graduated from NNHS. Strange things are going on about NNHS. Just today, my wife Holly (Hill Campbell - Hampton Roads Academy - '72) had lunch with one of her friends, Nannie Wise Milner, or Milliner (not sure how to spell her name) and she learned that Nannie had graduated from NNHS in 1942. Holly has known her for years, but just found out today that Nannie had graduated from NNHS. And, it was the same with me. I knew that Charlie had, as I had, worked at NASA-Langley, and that, in times past, he was one of the best bass players on the Peninsula, but I never knew that he had graduated from NNHS. Seems that all Typhoons DON'T stick together as much as we would should.
		Well, I am attaching a photo of a gig that I played with Charlie and Buck Rodgers (NNHS 1952), and it is so nice, at 75 years of age, to be the youngest dude in ANY photo. Charlie graduated from NNHS at age 24, Buck graduated at age 20, and I guess that I was lucky to be able to get out of there just after I turned 18. In this photo, Charlie is on the left, Buck is in center, I am on the right. Take care, and keep up the good work. Sincerely, Thank you so much, Bill; my condolences on the loss of your friend.

Charlie Johnson ('47), Buck Rodgers ('52), and Bill Campbell ('54)