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Edsell Leeroy Johnston 1927 - 2011

Edsell Leeroy Johnston of Modesto, Stanislaus County, CA was born on June 16, 1927, and died at age 83 years old on February 6, 2011. Edsell Johnston was buried at San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery Section C-16 Site 655 32053 West Mccabe Road, in Santa Nella.

Edsell Leeroy Johnston
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Modesto, Stanislaus County, CA 95355
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June 16, 1927
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    Branch of service: Us Navy Rank attained: AN Wars/Conflicts: Korea
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In 1927, in the year that Edsell Leeroy Johnston was born, aviator and media darling Charles Lindbergh, age 25, made the first successful solo TransAtlantic flight. "Lucky Lindy" took off from Long Island in New York and flew to Paris, covering  3,600 statute miles and flying for 33 1⁄2-hours. His plane "The Spirit of St. Louis" was a fabric-covered, single-seat, single-engine "Ryan NYP" high-wing monoplane designed by both Lindbergh and the manufacturer's chief engineer.
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In 1943, Edsell was 16 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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Johnston, Margaret Cecilia (Born Aug 27, 1880) Johnston, Charles (Born 1830) Johnston, Thomas (Born Oct 19, 1855) Harper, Doris (Born Jul 6, 1929) Johnston, Nora (Born May 14, 1872) Johnston, Afton (Born Mar 27, 1919) Johnston, Jordan Tyler Rising (Born Apr 1, 2009) Johnston, Ellen Johnston, General Albert (Feb 2, 1803 - Apr 6, 1862) Johnston, Gilbert (1700 - 1775)
Johnston, John (Jun 11, 1901 - Aug 1981) Johnston, Herbert (Sep 7, 1906 - May 22, 2004) Johnston, Marion (Jan 7, 1910 - Jan 22, 2004) Johnston, Lexie (Jun 27, 1919 - Dec 1986) Johnston, Sarah (Jun 12, 1905 - Jun 14, 1991) Johnston, Pearl (Oct 9, 1904 - Dec 1980) Johnston, Frederick (Aug 9, 1908 - Mar 1973) Johnston, Robert (Mar 9, 1908 - Jan 1972) Johnston, Forrest (May 30, 1896 - May 1987) Johnston, Beatrice (Mar 3, 1892 - Sep 1975)
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