{"id":58668,"date":"2025-11-24T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58668\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:53:08","slug":"tallahassee-native-kenneth-johnson-celebrates-100th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58668\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee native Kenneth Johnson celebrates 100th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kenneth Eugene Johnson was born in Tallahassee, Florida, on Nov. 12, 1925.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He served as a paratrooper during World War II \u2014 the first time he ever rode in an airplane, he had to jump out of it!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After returning home, he married Marjorie Johnson, and together they have shared 74 years of marriage, celebrating their most recent anniversary on Aug. 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They have two children, two grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. The family will gather later this month to celebrate Johnson\u2019s 100th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/life\/communities\/2025\/11\/24\/tallahassee-native-kenneth-johnson-celebrates-100th-birthday\/87387265007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tallahassee native Kenneth Johnson celebrates 100th birthday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tallahassee native Kenneth Johnson celebrates 100th birthday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenneth Eugene Johnson was born in Tallahassee, Florida, on Nov. 12, 1925. He served as a paratrooper during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35785,28,35784,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-58668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-eugene-johnson","tag-florida","tag-marjorie-johnson","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}