Both as a friend and neighbor Harold was a gift. Drayton’s Community Center is a fitting memorial of who H. G. Johnson was.
Pastor Sumner Williams, Harold Johnson, Robert Van Camp, Edith Parker Van Camp, and Catherine Stellon at the Bowesmont Methodist Church on July 22, 1944. Submitted photo
When I was in elementary school we were still living on the farm. Harold Johnson lived a mile to the east of us. That was in the 1950s before the Interstate Highway 29 Freeway was built. In those days anyone living within a couple of miles was considered your neighbor. Good neighbors were a gift.
Harold and his mother Florence would invite our family down the road a mile to their house. Sometimes i…
