 Birth | November 12, 1909 23 21 |
 Birth of a sister | Lela Johnston September 7, 1911 (Age 21 months) |
| Birth of a sister | Clare Johnston April 11, 1914 (Age 4 years) |
| Death of a mother | Clara Frost April 21, 1914 (Age 4 years) |
| Death of a sister | Clare Johnston July 21, 1915 (Age 5 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | Houston Frost September 18, 1916 (Age 6 years) |
 Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 6 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 7 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 8 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Sidney Elizabeth “Lizzie” Ward January 25, 1928 (Age 18 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 19 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Birth of a son #1 | Orval Gene Johnston July 11, 1934 (Age 24 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 32 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 40 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | Michael Joseph Burkhart December 19, 1954 (Age 45 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 36 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
| Death of a father | Delmar Samuel Johnston April 11, 1978 (Age 68 years) |
| Death of a sister | Lela Johnston May 29, 2001 (Age 91 years) |
| Death of a wife | Noma Grace Williams September 29, 2002 (Age 92 years) |
 Death | May 26, 2003 (Age 93 years) |