NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Richard O. Johnson was guided Jan. 23, 2007, by a family of eagles to our happy hunting grounds. A highly respected brother to Roderick, Roger, Patricia and Priscilla, Richard was lifted up and beyond Mother Earth by eagles. He was born July 19, 1924, in Bangor. Richard was a practicing honorable Redman of Native American cultural ways, love for Mother Earth and family ancestral ways. Mr. Johnson served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the engineering corps. After receiving an honorable discharge, he graduated from Wentworth Institute, Boston, worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and became a designer of ships built at Foreriver Shipyards, Quincy, Mass. His next step forward was joining a team of engineers who formed MITRE, an engineering and electronic design firm in Bedford, Mass., one of the new fields of fibre optics and also red LED’s. Mr. Johnson also served the U.S. government as a technical senior designer on highly classified equipment used by NORAD, Colorado Springs, Colo. Mr. Johnson’s upward vision was to fly with the eagles. He accomplished this goal. He became a member of the dream catchers club. He has fulfilled his proud mother’s vision of medicine maker. She endured racial injustices in her ancestral homeland. This brave warrior’s relentless efforts cleared her name, for which he, Richard, earned a new name, Great White Eagle, and three eagle feathers. With great admiration, we, his proud family, Micmac, Abenaki, ancestry confer on him the title, Chief White Eagle.
RICHARD O. JOHNSON
