Benjamin Franklin Johnson

Benjamin Franklin Johnson IV, 76, of Sherwood passed away Sunday, September 11, 2011. He was a retired Paramedic with M.E.M.S, a member of Ozark Regional Land Trust and creator of the New Pear Farm Land Trust. He was a United States Army Korean veteran serving as an Air Evac Medic and later in a Arkansas National Guard Helicopter Rescue Unit. He was a high school graduate of St. Stephens School in Austin, Texas and received a Bachelor's degree from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Pauline Hall Dale, of Sherwood; daughter, Jacqueline Sue Johnson of Sapulpa, Oklahoma; son, George J. Nelson, of Fayetteville; step daughter, Linda S. Nevels of Grain Valley, Missouri; two step sons, David S. Nelson, of Dawson, Georgia and Raymond L. Nelson of Little Rock; sister, Anne Wellman Beadle Prichard of Fayetteville; three grandsons, Benjamin Alexander Dickson, Sean Murphy Dickson and Josiah Loyd Nelson; two granddaughters, Lydia Marie Nelson and Emily Anne Johnson; and one nephew, Timothy Bentley Dallett, of Montreal Quebec. There will be a private family service at the Rieff Chapel Cemetery at Johnson Pear Farm. Memorials may be made to the Ben F. Johnson Education Trust, 3302 South Buckner Tarsney Road, Grain Valley, Missouri 64029. Arrangements by North Little Rock Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 758-1170. Online obituary and guest registry at www.nlrfh.com.