Memorial for Lance Cpl. Robert "Robby" Johnson

Memorial for local Marine set for Saturday
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
The event honors the serviceman who died in Iraq's Anbar province Dec. 20
By Paul Fattig
Mail Tribune
Family and friends of Lance Cpl. Robert "Robby" Johnson, 21, of Central Point, a Marine who died in Iraq on Dec. 20, are invited to a memorial honoring him on Saturday.

The memorial will begin at 11 a.m. at the Table Rock Fellowship, 3610 N. Pacific Highway, Medford.


Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a former Marine who has made a point of attending every funeral or memorial service of the roughly 110 in the military with Oregon ties who died in Iraq or Afghanistan, will attend Johnson's memorial, according to his spokeswoman, Jillian Schoene.

Johnson's father, Brad Johnson, and stepmother, Marie Johnson, of Central Point asked that no media be present at the private ceremony. They requested the privacy because of their continued grieving over his death, they said.

"I keep expecting that he will come walking through that door," his father said Tuesday. "We're trying to remember all the positive things."

His son's religious convictions gave him great comfort, Brad Johnson said. The Marine attended Table Rock Fellowship when he was home. Friends say he was an avid outdoorsman who loved to fish, hunt and camp.

A 2005 graduate of Crater High School who joined the service in September of that year, he died in what the Marine Corps described as a non-hostile incident in Anbar province. He was assigned to the 5th Combat Logistics Battalion, 1st Combat Logistics Regiment, 1st Marine Logistics Group, Camp Pendleton, Calif.

An investigation into his death is under way, according to the Marine Corps.
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