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Mar 30, 1994 · 0:37. Services have been set for Carol Elaine Johnson, wife of Academy Award-winning actor Ben Johnson, who died Sunday following an extended illness at an Arizona hospice center. She was 73. She was born Oct. 20, 1920, in Sherman Oaks, Calif. She and Ben Johnson had been married for 56 years.
Sep 23, 2021 · Ben Johnson was very dedicated to his mother, Ollie Susan Workman Johnson Rider, and actually died of a heart attack while visiting her at her home in Mesa, Arizona, on April 8, 1996. Ben’s wife, Carol, had died the previous year, while Ben’s mother lived to 101, passing in 2000.
Apr 9, 1996 · In 1990, he was honored at the Ben Johnson Celebrity Rodeo at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. His wife of 54 years, Carol, died early last year.
Apr 9, 1996 · Myrna Oliver Los Angeles Times. Ben Johnson, rugged Western actor of some 300 films who won an Academy Award as the movie theater owner in “The Last Picture Show,” died Monday He was 75.
Apr 9, 1996 · Johnson was preceded in death by his wife, Carol Johnson. Survivors include his mother, Ollie Rider; sister Helen Christenson; five nephews, John and Ben Miller, Dale Christenson Jr., Ben Christenson and Larry Christenson; and niece Ann Whitehorn.
May 1, 1996 · All I had was a wore-out automobile and a mad wife. But, you know, I am the only cowboy that ever won an Oscar in the movies and a world championship in rodeoing.” In later years Johnson started sponsoring the Ben Johnson Celebrity rodeos in major cities throughout the country, including Phoenix, to raise money for sick or deprived children.
Johnson died in 1996 and was buried near Pawhuska. 15. He remains one of the state’s favorite sons: Following James Garner’s death in 2014, a Tulsa World poll asked who should join Will Rogers ...
