PARIS — Earl N. Johnson, 87, of Paris died Monday, Jan. 29, 2007, in Paris. He was born Feb. 9, 1919, in Holdenville, Okla. He was a retired iron worker for Local Union No. 48 in Oklahoma City, an Army veteran of World War II, a member of Ratcliff Masonic Lodge No. 411, the BMW Christian Motorcyclist Association, the First Baptist Church in Branch, and the widower of Aleta Johnson.

Funeral will be 2 p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church in Branch with burial at Caulksville Cemetery in Caulksville under the direction of Brotherton Brothers Funeral Home of Charleston.

He is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth Terry of San Antonio and Mary Floyd of Moore, Okla.; a son, Rodney Johnson of Tulsa; seven grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Wendall and Reggie Johnson, Brady and Cory Roberds, Jason Hughey and Scott Robins.