IN MEMORIAM: Edwin A. Johnson, 81;
Painter Of Folk Art In Fly Creek Valley
FLY CREEK – Edwin Arthur Johnson, a local American folk artist, former real estate agent, and former textile executive, died late Monday afternoon, May 18, 2015, at the state Veterans' Home at Oxford. He was 81.
For several years, Ed provided the cover images for the Otsego Book, then the county’s foremost tourist book, making his work familiar to hundreds of thousands of tourists to the Cooperstown region.
Born May 2, 1934, in Brooklyn, he was the son of Edwin Herbert Johnson and Lillian Swanson Johnson. He was baptized at Trinity Swedish Lutheran Church in the Bronx.
His childhood was spent in Palmer, Mass., and Bergenfield and Teaneck, N.J., graduating from Teaneck High School in 1953. Ed was graduated from the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Sciences with a B.S. in Textile Engineering in 1957.
On April 20, 1963, Ed married Adele Louise Merkle in St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Teaneck.
