DON JOHNSTON

GOLDEN CITY- Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Daniel Funeral Home Chapel in Lamar, for Forest Don Johnston, 95, Golden City, who died Monday, March 28, 2016, at Good Shepherd Nursing Center in Lockwood. The Patriot Guard Riders will escort him to Lake Cemetery for burial with military honors.

Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 1 p.m.

Contributions are suggested to Missouri Baptist Children's Home, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include one son, Terry Johnston and wife LaWalta, Lamar; one daughter, Linda Sherron and husband Jerry, Golden City; two brothers, Gailand Johnston and wife Evelyn, Lamar and Gary Johnston and wife Lynn, Nevada; three sisters, Maxine Francis, Lamar, Thelma Lehman and husband Roy, Lamar and Connie Taylor and husband Bud, Kearney; two grandchildren, Terry Johnston Jr. and wife Kim and Allen Singer and wife Rhonda; two great-grandchildren, Elizabeth Johnston and Gracee Singer and one great-great-granddaughter, Aurora.

He was preceded in death by an infant son, Ronnie Don Johnston; two brothers, Bud and Dean Johnston; a brother-in-law, Rex Francis; a sister-in-law, Wanda (Hampton) Johnston and a longtime music friend, Retha.

Mr. Johnston was born March 3, 1921, in Adair, Okla., to Audie Ray and Allie Mae (Madole) Johnston. In 1933 at the age of 12, he and his family moved to Barton County, where he lived out the rest of his life. He served his country in the United States Army during World War II, being stationed in Germany as a radio interceptor operator. He was in five campaigns and received five Bronze Stars, the Good Conduct Medal and a Meritorious Service Wreath.

He was a Southern Baptist and enjoyed his lifelong work of being a crop and cattle farmer. He had been a member of VFW, as well as playing his fiddle with groups like Echo of the Ozarks, Silver Tones and with the Johnston Brothers at the Lamar Free Fair for over 50 years.

He married Alberta Medlin on Dec. 21, 1946. She preceded him in death in 1985.