| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Ninth Generation18932. Betty Jean Coffey was born on 15 May 1930 in North Carolina. Betty Jean died in an automobile accident with her husband on 30 May 1952 at the age of 22 at Wilkes General Hospital in North Wilkesboro, Wilkes Co., NC and was buried at Boone Fork Community Cemetery in Blowing Rock, Watauga Co., NC on 1 June 1952.46269,46270 Betty Jean Coffey and William Roy Johnson Jr. were married on 9 December 1950 in Boone, Watauga Co., NC.46271 William Roy Johnson Jr., son of William Roy Johnson and Eddie Phillips Kerley, was born on 7 March 1927 in North Carolina.46272 William Jr. died in an automobile accident on 30 May 1952 at the age of 25 at Wilkes General Hospital in North Wilkesboro, Wilkes Co., NC and was buried at Boone Fork Community Cemetery in Blowing Rock, Watauga Co., NC on 1 June 1952.46273,46274,46275 The Greensboro Record of Jun. 2, 1952 listing deaths over the Memorial Day weekend reported that "Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Van Fa[r]thing all of Boone, were killed when a car driven by Johnson crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer truck near North Wilkesboro." |