Ira (Pat) (Buddy) Clifton Johnson, 89, of Piceance Creek in Rio Blanco County, Colo., passed away June 28, 2011, at Pioneers Hospital in Meeker, Colo.
Pat was born the eighth of 10 children to the late Delbert (Dell) and Annie Johnson on Dec. 4, 1921, in Ledonia, Texas. Pat and his family moved to Piceance Creek in 1923, and Pat was graduated from Rifle High School in 1939. He married the late Mary Louise Paulson…
