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<span style="color:#006400">'''JOHNSON, Preston'''</span> (1907-1950), drowned when he was washed off his fishing boat at Santa Catalina Island. He was 43 years old.


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=====<span style="color:#006400">In the News~</span>=====


'''November 13, 1950 [LAT]:''' “Preston Johnson's funeral arranged. Huntington Beach, Nov. 2—Funeral services for Preston Johnson, 43, long-time Wintersburg area resident who drowned when washed off his commercial fishing boat Friday near Santa Catalina Island, will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Smith Mortuary. He leaves his widow Linnie, his father, Thomas J. Johnson, Huntington Beach; four sons, Kenneth, Marvin, Eugene and Jack of Huntington Beach; a daughter, Mrs. Doris Lankford of Turlock; three brothers, Garland, J.B. and Troy, all of Huntington Beach, and two sisters, Mrs. Zadie McKenzie and Mrs. Mae Potts of Huntington Beach.”