Woodruff Barnes Johnson ’39

Woody died Feb. 18, 1995, in Washington, Penn. where he had lived all his life. He came to Princeton with from the Hill School, majored in engineering, then went to work for the R. G. Johnson Co., which had been founded by his father, a firm specializing in heavy construction for the bituminous coal industry. He became president in 1965 and passed the reins to his younger son in 1988, planning for himself and Anne, his wife since 1953, a future of fun and games in retirement. Unhappily those years saw successive health problems slow him down.

Woody was an ensign in the Seabees and came home to a lifetime of helping others on the boards for Family Service, the American Cancer Society, Boy Scouts of America . He served on the boards of Mellon Bank in Washington, Pittsburgh Coal Mining Inst. Assoc., American Mining Congress, and the Society of Mining Engineers.

With Anne and their two sons, Woodruff B. Jr. and Murray C., we mourn the loss of Woody. We offer our sympathies also to Woody's sisters and his four grandchildren.

The Class of 1939