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Ralph worked as a coal miner during the winters and at tungsten and hard -rock mining in the summers <br />until 1977. Ralph and Mary grew acres of wheat to feed the chickens and managed a side business <br />selling eggs. Mary Johnson is quoted in a Louisville Times article on her 90th birthday, "Once a week, they <br />would come by for the eggs. Boy, that was hard work, I can't believe now I could ever do it." When the <br />Louisville Historical Museum opened in 1986, Ralph and Mary Johnson donated numerous artifacts <br />related to their life at 425 Grant, including an egg scale used to size and grade eggs. <br />A two -acre lot inside of old town Louisville ill is really <br />A place <br />out of <br />tim <br />:. JEFF THDMAS <br />MaFty JOHNSON STANDS <br />next to more Than 50 birth- <br />day cards she received on <br />her 90ih Glritiday, at right. <br />Above, the two acres of <br />remaining Isrmland sur- <br />rounding her home Is <br />referred la by neighbors <br />as 'Johnson Perk." <br />1999 Louisville Times article on Mary Johnson and her home at "Johnson's Park', 425 Grant Ave. <br />Ralph and Mary Johnson did not have any children. They lived at 425 Grant until Ralph's death in 1991. <br />Mary continued to live there until her death in 2001. The property was passed on to her niece Margie <br />Wilson Lazuk and George Lazuk. Margie was one of nine children from Ralph's sister, Daisy Johnson, who <br />married Arlo Wilson. <br />The George and Margie Lazuk raised their three children in Louisville and were active in Louisville's social <br />and civic life. Margie Lazuk was central to fundraising for the erection of the miner statue outside City <br />