Roy Johnson grew to adulthood at Milwaukie, Oregon, and was educated in the town's grammar and high schools. With his brother, Leo, he was a member of Milwaukie's volunteer fire department, and during World War I he served at the front lines in France with a field signal company. After the war he remained on the East Coast while working toward formal certification as an electrician. As a journeyman, he traveled widely in the coal-producing districts of the Appalachian Mountains, completing dangerous electrical engineering assignments for various mining companies. Roy and his wife, Catherine Marie 'Katie' Large, whom he married at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, on September 24, 1919, had one daughter, and were longtime residents of New Ringgold, Pennsylvania. Roy died at 77.
Roy Johnson grew to adulthood at Milwaukie, Oregon, and was educated in the town's grammar and high schools. With his brother, Leo, he was a member of Milwaukie's volunteer fire department, and during World War I he served at the front lines in France with a field signal company. After the war he remained on the East Coast while working toward formal certification as an electrician. As a journeyman, he traveled widely in the coal-producing districts of the Appalachian Mountains, completing dangerous electrical engineering assignments for various mining companies. Roy and his wife, Catherine Marie 'Katie' Large, whom he married at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, on September 24, 1919, had one daughter, and were longtime residents of New Ringgold, Pennsylvania. Roy died at 77.
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