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By Dena Wood
The Times 

Citizens of the Year “Long Overdue”

 

March 27, 2014

Deanne and Larry Johnson

WAITSBURG - After listing former Citizen of the Year recipients, Tom Baker asked attendees at the March 18 Commercial Club meeting to rise. "If your name doesn't start with 'J', sit down . . . If you've already won the award, sit down . . . Look who's left!" Enthusiastic applause erupted and the audience laughed as still-standing Larry and Deanne Johnson eyed one another in surprise. "We were under the pretense that we knew who was receiving the award, and it wasn't us!" said Larry later.

The Johnsons moved to Waitsburg from New Orleans in August 2002 after purchasing the Butler house on 5th a...



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