Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameMatilda Marie "Tillie" TRABUCCO , 3
Birth Date10 Jun 1912230
Birth PlaceCañon City, Fremont County, Colorado
MemoGraves Hospital
Bapt PlaceBrookside, Fremont County, Colorado
MemoSt. Anthony's Catholic Church
Death Date24 Feb 2004 Age: 91
Death PlacePueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado
MemoLifecare Center
Burial Date28 Feb 2004
Burial PlacePueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado, Imperial Memorial Gardens Cemetery
MemoHillcrest section, Lot 194, grave 3 38º13‘08”N 104º41‘04”W
OccupationNurse's Aide & Avon Lady
EducationCañon City High School 1930, Began Nurse's Training
ReligionCatholic
FatherGiovanni Battista "John" TRABUCCO , 6 (1886-1971)
MotherAntonia Maria “Mary” GOETTINA , 7 (1892-1957)
Spouses
Birth Date7 May 1919229
Birth PlaceEllis, Ellis County, Kansas
Death Date5 Dec 1986 Age: 67
Death PlacePueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado
MemoSt. Mary Corwin Hospital
Burial Date10 Dec 1986
Burial PlacePueblo, Pueblo County, Colorado, Imperial Memorial Gardens Cemetery
MemoHillcrest section, Lot 194, grave 4 38º13‘09”N 104º41‘04”W
OccupationEntertainer: TV, Radio, Western Band, CF&I Painter
EducationHigh School (GED)
ReligionProtestant
FatherWilliam Henry "Bill" JOHNSON , 4 (1896-1980)
MotherRoea Ann "Roy" RYAN , 5 (1898-1993)
Family ID97
Marr Date5 Dec 1939
Marr PlaceRaton, Colfax County, New Mexico
ChildrenK. E. K. (1941-)
 P. M. P. (1946-)
 J. H. , 1 (1951-)
Notes for Matilda Marie "Tillie" TRABUCCO
Buried Imperial Memorial Gardens, Hillcrest section, Lot 194, grave 3.

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Matilda 'Tillie" Marie (Trabucco) Johnson, 91, passed away at Life Care Center of Pueblo, February 24, 2004. Preceded in death by her husband William Admiral "Buddy" Johnson; her parents Giovanni "John" Battisfa and Antonia Maria "Nina" (Goettina) Trabucco; and her brother Peter John (Helen) Trabucco.

Survived by children, Kathryn E. (Wiley) Therwhanger; Patricia M. (Joseph) Ponikvar and John H. (Nadine) Johnson; grandchildren Wade L (Allison) Therwhanger; LaVonna K. MacKay; Lisa A. (Mark) Decker; Jamie L Ponikvar; Rebecca S. and Thomas W. Johnson; great-grandchildren, Dylan J. and Nicholas 0. Therwhanger; Brandon R. and Ashley R. MacKay; and Joshua W. Decker; and numerous relatives and friends.

Tillie was born June 10, 1912 during a rare summer snowstorm in Graves Hospital, Canon City and raised on her parents' farm in nearby Lincoln Park. Knowing only Italian, she attended Brookside Elementary. Later she was a star student when she attended Wilson Jr. High and the Abbey, before graduating from Canon City High School in 1930. Her parents were from the mountainous region of Northern Italy near France and Switzerland which is much like Colorado. Her family traveled to Italy aboard the ocean liner Mauritania where Matilda celebrated her 13th birthday in Paris and met her grandparents only once before returning aboard the fast Luisitiania.

She worked on the farm alongside her parents, brother and relatives of her mother's two sisters (who like her parents, had emigrated from Italy around 1900) and who also had farms nearby in the Italian farming and coal mining enclave between Cañon and Florence. Many Sundays were spent traveling by horse-drawn wagon to aunt Madlina's house in Rockvale for family dinner and then dancing among the Italian community. Eighty years later she would vividly remember their returning late at night, snuggled with her little brother Pete under heavy blankets in the back of the wagon, as they gazed up at a starry universe as the old horse was trusted to find his way home through the cold darkness.

After high school, for a year, Matilda attended nurse's training at Parkview Hospital. Tillie worked at Camera Craft learning photography which she enjoyed the rest of her life and passed on to her children. It was during this period that she met and married Buddy Johnson of TV/radio fame on December 5, 1939 and became a full participant in all his activities such as bookkeeper for his band for more than 40 years. Their marriage would last exactly 47 years to the minute.

During their happy and busy years together, in the fifties, the family moved to Beulah where Tillie was very active in the community as Cub Scout mom, in the Beulah Belles, and the Beulah Saddle Club, among other things. They owned Gayway Park in Beulah where Tillie ran the restaurant and dance hall.

In the sixties, the family returned to Pueblo where Tillie enjoyed selling Avon for years and the many friendships which resulted and was rewarded by being in Avon's Presidents Club. She frequently won awards at the State Fair for her prized canned goods. Tillie enjoyed traveling, camping and honda riding across Colorado with her family and friends for nearly 30 years.

A faithful Catholic, Tillie loved her family and was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother with an uplifting, positive outlook on life who will be sorely missed by all who knew her.
The previous information was printed in Matilda’s funeral card.

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The 1st child, she was born in Cañon hospital. Brother Pete was born at home, later at age 10, she and Pete were sent to their cousins the Fruillos, as her mother gave birth to twins who were born dead.

When she was little she remembers her parents, brother and herself would go to Rockvale early on Sundays for supper with the Goglios. The Goglios were a very big family and the kids would play, mom was always somewhat afraid of the Goglio parents, like they’d done something wrong. After a wonderful lunch (Mrs. Goglio was a great cook) they would go to the hall in Rockvale for a dance occasionally with an Italian band, but usually they used a wind-up record player. Most of the records were in English, but many were in Italian. She remembers going home in a buggy after dark and laying in the back of the open buggy. The kids would cover up with blankets and look up at the stars. Mom always wondered how the horse knew how to go home in the dark.

She remembers when the First World War ended in 1918, she was 6. Everyone gathered to celebrate and were shooting guns and drinking. Lots of noise and celebration.

Though being on the farm they never experienced hardships because of shortages due to the war or the later stock market crash. She drank goat milk because they had a goat and she very skinny as a child. They always had lots of farm animals and always a cat and in later year had outside dogs.

Matilda went to old Brookside elementary up to 6th grade. She didn't speak any English when she went to 1st grade. She repeated 1st grade learning English. Later skipped 3rd grade to end up in 4th grade. It was an old rikety building that the wind would howl through. Then a newer Brookside school was built where she went to 7th & 8th grades.

Grandpa and grandma got a car (possibly a Model T truck?) probably in the early 1920’s. She said she wasn’t old enough to drive when they got the car, so it must have been before 1928 when she turned 16. Everyone had horses which they used in the fields and then also used to pull wagons or buggies.

Went to Italy in 1925, when she was 13 years old. Left May 15 and returned in mid-Sep. Traveled to New York by train. From New York traveled on the Mauratania of the Cunard Line. Eight days to Plymouth, England then landed in Cherbourge, France. She, her brother and mother were sick the whole time both over and back, while her father enjoyed all the food available. Went by train to Paris where she celebrated 13th birthday. Her dad bought her a new hat and a black umbrella as presents. Continued to Torino and her parents' villages. Father's town was Agliè which is on the plain while her Mother's was in Alpette up in the Alps. Only one woman had a horse and buggy in the village for she was rich. The rest of town walked on foot. Town owned by Duke of Genoa. Each town had a celebration of its own. While they were there her father's sisters were chosen Festival Queens, in his honor. Came back to America on the Luisitiania, which was the fastest ship of its day. They came back into the US through Ellis Island where earlier in the century her parents had originally entered the United States to live.

She attended 9th grade at Wilson Jr. High in Cañon. 10th through 12th grades were at Cañon City High school. She graduated in the class in 1930.

She remembers being labeled "wops" from Brookside, country kids, by the "city" Cañon kids. They couldn't participate in after school activities because of the bus leaving right away. If they missed the bus they had to walk home. At this time there was only one phone in Brookside which all the kids would keep busy calling about the games in Cañon.

In 1929, there was a major prison break in Cañon, she remembers being let out of school early, because they were fearful of prisoners capturing the kids. Many bells and whistles were blowing and much bedlam.

The depression wasn't really that different because the farm supplied everything they needed. When one neighbor butchered a pig everyone got together and had a feast. They had cows, chickens and rabbits.

After high school a friend was going to nurse's training at Parkview Hospital in Pueblo, so she decided to go too. She was accepted and given $16.00 per month plus board, room and clothes. One of her friends decided she wanted to go back to Cañon, so she decided to go back to Cañon too. She was there from Sept 1930 to March 1931. No jobs because of the depression, so she helped on the farm.

Other friends asked her to come back to Pueblo, and she came back and worked again at Parkview, during a period between nursing courses, which took three years to complete, but 3 years seemed like an eternity. So she heard that there was an opening at Camera Craft and she got into processing and printing photography.

A friend Irma, a cousin who lived in Pueblo, asked her one summer night to walk downtown. Another friend of Irma's drove by in a car and asked them if they wanted a ride and Buddy Johnson, her future husband, was also in the car. He was singing with his good voice and the others said he sounded like just like Bing Crosby. Buddy was working at Corwin Hospital as a painter. He would wait outside Camera Craft for her and track her down. Very persistent. He was working with his uncles, Don and Zelpho, as a painter in the Colorado Building. She was working at Camera Craft nearby and boarding at Rowena's mother's house. One day she told them that she'd be staying at a friend's that night. Buddy picked her up at noon at Camera Craft and that day, December 5, 1939 they went to Raton, NM and got married. They came back and honeymooned at a hotel on main street, returning to work the next day. Rowena's mother suspected that they'd gotten married and helped them get an apartment. At this time she'd hadn't met Buddy's family. They got married at 4:20 PM on December 5, 1939 and ironically, exactly 47 years later to the minute at 4:20 PM on December 5, 1986 he died of cancer.

Buddy worked one day at Pueblo’s CF&I plant running a crane. He said he didn’t like the possibility of killing someone with the heavy loads it carried over the worker’s heads and quit. They moved to Crested Butte which was then a CF&I company town to work again as a painter. There was no vacancies in town and they had my oldest sister Kitty who then was a new baby and was crying and had the colic. They stopped and a life-long friend Laura Lacy approached them and asked what was the matter. When learning of their plight, Laura and her husband Jim decided to move into their landladies’ house so they could move into their house. This began a friendship which lasted over 50 years.

They all were back in Pueblo by late 1941. At the outbreak of the 2nd World War they had just arrived in Wyoming. Buddy having just gotten a job transfer with the CF&I as a painter from Crested Butte to Gilette, Wyoming. Now Kitty was six months old and they all were living in a small round silver trailer. Upon hearing the news they immediately headed back to Pueblo.

After Pearl Harbor, Buddy decided to enlist and went to Jim & Laura’s house because they had a bathtub to clean up. A cousin of his known as Swede decided that though he really didn’t want to enlist, if Buddy was going to enlist, Swede would too. They went to the recruiting office and Dad was found to have had broken, crooked arm which he suffered from being thrown from a horse he was breaking years earlier in Arlington, this caused him to be classed 4F and rejected as a recruit. Swede was found to be in perfect shape and was signed up, which made him kind of “sore” or mad for awhile as it wasn’t his idea to go without Buddy.

Matilda said that during WWII everything, particularly meat, was rationed through ration books. You had to make things last each month until the next month’s book came out. During the war Buddy worked painting most of the buildings at the Pueblo Air Base (now the Pueblo Airport) and at the PAD (the Pueblo Army Depot). He also drove a cab nights during this time. The Pueblo Air Base was a major base with bombers and lots of airmen stationed there. It’s most notable airman was Clark Gable whom Buddy met and gave rides to.

When the news came out that the war was over Pueblo went mad. CF&I’s whistles were blowing, all the cars were honking their horns, it was crazy. Buddy had an old car which he’d cut down for chasing coyotes on the prairie and it was packed with people hanging off it yelling and laughing. He and others were driving it slowly up and down Main Street and even on the sidewalks. People just moved out of their way, everyone was all smiles and kissing, the place was packed wall to wall. Everyone was yelling and laughing incredibly happy that the long struggle was finally over. It seemed that everybody got out of the stores and work and gathered to celebrate the end of a terrible time.

Matilda was in the Doctor’s office for a checkup for she was pregnant with second daughter Pat. Someone in the office heard the news that the war was over and all the appointments for the day were cancelled until sometime later. Everything shut down in celebration.

In the fifites, Buddy approached the manager for the new television station KCSJ-TV (which represented Chieftain & Star-Journal, Pueblo’s newspapers and the station’s owner) about him hosting some television programs. And thus began Buddy’s notable broadcasting career, including: the Buddy Johnson Adventurer’s Club Show (a children’s afternoon program requiring reservations because it was so popular), the Barndance (an evening live music show with his band the Colorado Rangers playing for a live audience who danced), an afternoon radio show on KCSJ radio for Western music and he hosted Western movies on Adventure Theater, among others.

They also bought and operated Gayway Park, a restaurant and dance hall in Beulah where the family moved shortly after I was born in 1951. For nearly 40 years his band The Colorado Rangers played all over Colorado and occasionally in New Mexico, for this he was inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame.

The fifties and early sixties were so busy that we saw little of Buddy, he was either on TV, radio, playing with his band or making personal appearances. In 1962, the station was sold to KOA in Denver and the new owners didn’t keep alot of the previous shows.

This began a whole new phase for my parents, a much more family oriented time. Buddy went to work for the city of Pueblo and retired from there in 1984 after twenty years working in the Traffic and Communications Department. During this time we camped, fished and rode Hondas over much of Colorado. I know a great deal about the back country from this twenty year period when we traveled endless dirt roads of Colorado, its prairies and mainly its high country. Crested Butte and Gothic above it were particular favorites.236]

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Matilda “Tillie” Marie (Trabucco) Johnson, 91, passed away at Life Care Center, February 24, 2004. Preceded in death by her husband William A. “Buddy” Johnson; her parents Giovanni “John” Battista and Antonia Maria “Nina” Trabucco; and her brother Pete John (Helen) Trabucco.
Survived by children, [Kathryn E. (Wiley) Therwhanger; Patricia M. (Joseph) Ponikvar and John H. (Nadine) Johnson;] grandchildren, [Wade L. (Allison) Therwhanger; LaVonna K. MacKay; LIsa A. (Mark) Decker; Jamie L. Ponikvar; Rebecca S. ]and [Thomas W. Johnson;] great-grandchildren[, Dylan J. and Nicholas D. Therwhanger; Brandon R. and Ashley R. MacKay; and Joshua W. Decker;] and numerous relatives and friends.
Tillie was born June 10, 1912 in Graves Hospital, Cañon City and raised on her parents’ farm in nearby Lincoln Park. Knowing only Italian, she attended Brookside Elementary. Later she was a star student when she attended Wilson Jr. High and the Abbey, before graduating from Cañon City High School in 1930. Her parents were from the mountainous region of Northern Italy near France and Switzerland which is much like Colorado. Her family traveled to Italy aboard the ocean liner Mauritania where Matilda celebrated her 13th birthday in Paris and met her grandparents only once before returning aboard the fast Luisitiania.
She worked on the farm alongside her parents, brother and relatives of her mother’s two sisters (who like her parents, had emigrated from Italy around 1900) and who also had farms nearby in the Italian farming and coal mining enclave between Cañon and Florence. Many Sundays were spent traveling by horse-drawn wagon to aunt Madlina’s house in Rockvale for family dinner and then dancing among the Italian community. Eighty years later she would vividly remember their returning late at night, snuggled with her little brother Pete under heavy blankets in the back of the wagon, as they gazed up at a starry universe as the old horse was trusted to find his way home through the cold darkness.
After high school, for a year, Matilda attended nurse’s training at Parkview Hospital. Tillie worked at Camera Craft learning photography which she enjoyed the rest of her life and passed on to her children. It was during this period that she met and married Buddy Johnson of TV/radio fame and became a full participant in all his activities such as bookkeeper for his band for more than 40 years. Their marriage would last exactly 47 years to the minute.
During their happy and busy years together, in the fifties, the family moved to Beulah where Tillie was very active in the community as Cub Scout mom, the Beulah Belles, and the Beulah Saddle Club, among other things. They owned Gayway Park in Beulah where Tillie ran the restaurant and dance hall.
In the sixties, the family returned to Pueblo where Tillie enjoyed selling Avon for years and the many friendships which resulted and was rewarded by being in Avon’s President’s Club. She frequently won awards at the State Fair for her prized canned goods. Tillie enjoyed traveling, camping and honda riding across Colorado with her family and friends for nearly 30 years.
A faithful Catholic. Tillie loved her family and was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother with an uplifting, positive outlook on life who will be sorely missed by all who knew her.237

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[Burrial plot at Imperial Memorial Gardens, Hillcrest section, Lot 194, grave 3.

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In California there are some places named Trabuco. The story goes, one of the soldiers with Don Gaspar de Portola lost his blunderbuss (a gun not unlike those carried by the Pilgrims) in the area in 1769 when they were exploring. The Spanish word for blunderbuss is Trabuco. The soldier lost his gun in a canyon, hence the canyon was named "Trabuco". Subsequently, a peak and then a Forest District took the name too, pronounced "tra-boo-co".

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The origin of the word most likely is from Latin from which both Spanish and Italian derive. The double "c" is probably the Italian--there are very few "cc" words in Spanish.]

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The Historical Research Center Family Name History - Trabucco
The origin of the Italian surname Trabucco should be placed between the fifteenth and sixteenth century; the surname in fact is the same name of a weapon, the “trabucco” or the “blunderbuss” which was invented and used around that period. The final letter “o” of the surname denotes the plural form,illustrating the process of the surname having been passed on from one generation to the next. The “trabucco” does not exist anymore in Italian, instead is used the term “trabocchetto”, which has the same origin, plus the suffix “-etto” and which means “trap” or “pitfall”. The surname Trabucco,deriving from the name of a weapon, indicates that the original bearer was a soldier, or maybe a hunter, and the name must be considered or occupational origin. In the Middle Ages the pattern serving as a basis for fixed Italian surnames was based on paternity., the name of the father being the reference for identification, but before the advent of a structured system of surnames, a man was most conveniently identified by his occupation or trade.
As the closest variant to the surname Trabucco, the “Dizionario Storico Blasonico”, a compilation of the Italian nobility, mentions two families by the name of Trabucco, one from Sicily and one from Piedmont. The earliest references to the surnames, mention the family from Piedmont as rich landownersin the fourteenth century. Later, one Gian-Antonio di Bernardino Trabuccowas the minister for the finances of the kingdom of Savoy.
BLAZON OF ARMS: Per pale counterfessy argent and gules; overall a pale of the first; as chief or charged with an eagle displayed sable.
CREST: The eagle as in the arms.
ORIGON: Italy15

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TRABUCCO: Italian: metonymic occupational name for a trapper, from Old Italian trabucco ‘trap’, ‘pitfall’, Sicilian trabbuccu ‘(mouse)trap’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press

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Research notes for Matilda Marie "Tillie" TRABUCCO
1920 Census238
1930 Census239
1940 Census202 (in 1940 they lived at 306 1/2 West Corona Pueblo, CO)
Notes for William Admiral "Buddy" (Spouse 1)
Named after Admiral Byrd the explorer. William Henry & Roea Johnson often named their children after noteable figures.200

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A great deal of additional information on Buddy Johnson can be found at a separate website at: buddyjohnson.net

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JOHNSON: English and Scottish: patronymic from the personal name John. As an American family name, Johnson has absorbed patronymics and many other derivatives of this name in continental European languages. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press

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Buried Imperial Memorial Gardens, Hillcrest section, Lot 194, grave 4.

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William A. "Buddy" Johnson passed away Dec. 5, 1986, on his 47th wedding anniversary at St. Mary Corwin Hospital, Pueblo. He is survived by his wife, Matilda M. Johnson of Pueblo; three children , Kitty (Wiley) Therwhanger of Littleton, Pat (Joe) Ponikvar of Lakewood and John H. (Nadine) Johnson of Pueblo, and six grandchildren. He is also survived by his mother, Roea Ann Johnson; sisters and brothers, Madeline Barnett, Eugene Johnson and Doyle Johnson, all of Pueblo, and Shirley Schrank of Riverside, Calif., and numerous nieces and nephews. Born May 7, 1919, in Ellis, Kan., he moved shortly thereafter to Arlington, Colo. Pueblo and Beulah resident since the mid-1930s, Buddy was involved in many occupations from owning a trucking company to insurance sales. He recently retired from 20 years with the City of Pueblo Traffic and Communications Department. But by far, Buddy is best remembered for his extensive involvement in television and radio from 1954 to 1962. For eight years, he hosted a daily children's afternoon television show, "The Buddy Johnson Show - Adventure's Club," on which over 100,000 local children appeared. He had a weekly evening live country music studio program, "The Barndance, Colorado Hayride," both on Pueblo's KCSJ-TV, now KOAA-TV. Also on television he hosted movies for two years on the late night "Western Star Theater." During the same period on KCSJ radio, he had a daily noon country music program and a weekly evening music show. He was involved in the creation of many annual local events from the Kid's Day Parade (which he hosted for many years), the Beulah Yule Log and the State Fair Breakfast. Buddy hosted and interviewed the many Western TV and motion picture stars who came to Pueblo during these years. At the same time, he owned and operated Gayway Park in Beulah (which he rebuilt around 1960), where for five years he presented weekly Sunday afternoon music shows, "The Beulah Jamboree." This variety show featured an extensive array of major country stars and first presented numerous Western performers who have since achieved wide national fame, such as Jim Ed Brown. For more than 40 years his Western-swing band, "The Colorado Rangers," with whom countless musicians have performed, was an annual fixture at regional parades, rodeos and events all over Colorado and northern New Mexico. Recently, Buddy was secretary-treasurer of Tamarack Productions of Pueblo and appeared in the production of "Damon Runyon's Pueblo" as the sheriff. In appreciation for all his work in the entertainment industry in Colorado over many decades, he was inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame, when he received the notable Pioneer's Award for his many contributions. He was a life member of Pueblo Elks Lodge No. 90. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at George McCarthy Historic Chapel. Interment will be Imperial Memorial Gardens with Elks rites by Pueblo Lodge No. 90. In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory are suggested to Country Music Foundation or Colorado Boy's Ranch through the funeral office. The family will receive friends at 1224 Lake following the cemetery interment.231

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Ex-TV show host dies from cancer at 67 in Pueblo
PUEBLO (AP) - WILLIAM A. “BUDDY” JOHNSON, who hosted a children’s television show on Pueblo’s KCSJ-TV in the 1950s and 1960s, has died at a Pueblo hospital from cancer. He was 67.
Until 1962, Buddy Johnson and his pals - Princess Columbine, puppets KoKo and Pierre and Chubby the Horse - delighted children. His show, which featured games, tricks, characters and cartoons, ran for eight years on KCSJ, now KOAA.
Johnson, who died Friday on his 47th wedding anniversary, said in a 1979 interview that changes in television disturbed him.
“There’s too much violence. I definitely feel there should be a kid show that’s in good taste done by someone who has an interest in the younger generation,” he said.
Although he made his mark with area children, Johnson had other pursuits. His band, the Colorado Rangers, performed western swing music at parades and rodeos throughout the region for almost 40 years.
Johnson hosted The Barndance, a weekly country music program on KCSJ-TV and had country music shows on KCSJ radio as well.
Johnson was inducted into the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame four years ago.232

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The following poem was from Buddy’s funeral card:

THE CALL OF THE BRAVE AND THE FREE
We dream of days of long ago,
When brave men crossed the plain;
They went in prairie schooners,
In a long, long wagon train.

The kindly wagon master,
Who organized them all;
Would start them on the journey,
And they waited for his call.

"Wagons ho" he shouted,
And they started one by one;
and slowly they went onward,
Till past the setting sun.

Ah! forthose days of long ago,
And each new sight to see;
To have lived those great experiences,
Why couldn't it have been me?

But wait! those days aren't really gone,
for traveling on and on;
There's a long, long row of trailers,
That have started with the dawn.

A brand new trailer master,
BUDDY JOHNSON called by name;
Has organized his people,
In a long, long trailer train.

We follow where he leads us,
First waiting for his call;
He knows where fish are jumping,
And leaves turn in the Fall.

So "Trailers ho" with BUDDY,
Is bound to be some fun;
And at his call we start our cars,
And move out one by one.

And then a bonfire's lighted,
Food and laughter flowing free;
And many watching from afar,
Say, "Why can't that be me?"

So BUDDY we salute you,
We're forging on ahead;
We look for greener pasture,
The old west isn't dead.

The train is growing larger,
For new ones come each year;
BUDDY's fame is growing greater;
Now many more will hear.

His "Trailers ho" at sunrise,
And with the setting sun;
All are happy with the journey,
And say to him "Well done."

- by Laura M. Lacy233

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Death certificate234

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Medical notes for William Admiral "Buddy" (Spouse 1)
Died of lung cancer from over 40 years of heavy smoking.
Research notes for William Admiral "Buddy" (Spouse 1)
1930 Census235
1940 Census202 (in 1940 they lived at 306 1/2 West Corona Pueblo, CO)

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