RICK JOHNSON

Funeral service for William R.C. "Rick" Johnson of DeSoto will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Vinyard Funeral Home in Festus, with the Rev. James Owens officiating. Burial will be in Charter Memorial Gardens at DeSoto.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today.

Johnson, 40, died Sunday, Nov. 23, 1997, at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Crystal City.

He was born July 18, 1957, in Booneville, Miss., son of Thomas and Cladia Reilley Johnson. He married the former Irene Dietrich.

Johnson was formerly of Cape Girardeau. He was a printer at Conform Inc. in Maryland Heights.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Melissa and Samantha Johnson and Francesca Wunderlich of DeSoto; a son, William "Cody" Johnson of DeSoto; and a sister, Christi Batt of McCloud, Okla.

He was preceded in death by his parents.