| − | Johnston was active in the [[Chamber of Commerce]], Rotary International, and the Forest Country Club. He was a deacon and [[Sunday school]] teacher at the Forest [[Presbyterian]] Church and volunteered to assist the [[Boy Scouts of America]] and [[Little League]] baseball.<ref name=papers/> | + | Johnston was active in the [[Chamber of Commerce]], Rotary International, and the Forest Country Club. He was a deacon and [[Sunday school]] teacher at the Forest [[Presbyterian]] Church and volunteered to assist the [[Boy Scouts of America]] and Little League baseball.<ref name=papers/> |
| | Johnston and his wife, Fay, had two daughters, Carol J. Lindley and husband, Robert C. Lindley, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Lynn J. Catalina and husband, Ben Herman Catalina, of [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]; a son, Erle "Bubby" Johnston, III, formerly the public information officer at East Central Community College in Decatur, Mississippi, and five grandchildren. Johnston died early in the fall of 1995 at the age of seventy-seven of a heart ailment at St. Dominic's Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi.<ref name=nyt/> | | Johnston and his wife, Fay, had two daughters, Carol J. Lindley and husband, Robert C. Lindley, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and Lynn J. Catalina and husband, Ben Herman Catalina, of [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]; a son, Erle "Bubby" Johnston, III, formerly the public information officer at East Central Community College in Decatur, Mississippi, and five grandchildren. Johnston died early in the fall of 1995 at the age of seventy-seven of a heart ailment at St. Dominic's Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi.<ref name=nyt/> |