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Dr. Miles Johnson, born February 14, 1914, in a home in Lake Village, Arkansas, which is of historical interest today, died September 30, 2001. After receiving a degree in pharmacy at the University of Tennessee, he worked at Marine Hospital as a pharmacist and x-ray technician. There he met his future wife, Anne Haynes, a lab tech. During that time, he obtained his law degree from the Southern College of Law and was licensed to practice by the State of Tennessee. At the declaration of World War II, he enlisted as a private and became a lieutenant in the signal core. Soon after D Day, he was sent to France. After serving five years in the army, he left with an honorable discharge. After the war, he married Anne Haynes and moved to Albuquerque, where he purchased a drugstore. There they had two children. In the years to come, he decided to go to medical school at the University of Tennessee, where he graduated in 1955. Again drawn to the Southwest, he returned to practice medicine in Albuquerque. For 30 years he practiced in the Five Points area with his brother, Hensley Johnson and later at the Plasma Center. Victor, his son, married Margie Probst and two children were born to them, Andrew and Scott. Sally Jane, his daughter, resides in Albuquerque. Dr. Miles Johnson was as at home with Shakespeare and Chopin as he was with the street people. The Albuquerque Country Club was as much his abode as where the homeless lived. An open house will be held in his honor October 13, 2001 from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., 1600 San Patricio SW, to celebrate Thoreau's line,"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
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