Background
Johnson, Evelyn Bryan was born on November 4, 1909 in Corbin, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of Edward William and Mayme Estelle (Fox) Stone.
Johnson, Evelyn Bryan was born on November 4, 1909 in Corbin, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of Edward William and Mayme Estelle (Fox) Stone.
Graduate Tennessee Wesleyan Junior College, 1929. Student of University Tennessee, 1930-1932.
She was a graduate of Tennessee Wesleyan College. As a young woman, she taught school in Etowah, Tennessee. She logged 57,635.4 flying hours, and was the oldest flight instructor in the world.
She trained more pilots and gave more Federal Aviation Administration exams than any other pilot.
She was named in the Guinness Book of World Records as having the most flying hours of any woman and the most of any living person. Johnson was inducted into the Women in Aviation Pioneers Hall of Fame, the Tennessee and Kentucky aviation halls of fame and others
She was awarded a bronze Carnegie Medal for rescuing a helicopter pilot after he crashed. Johnson became manager of the Moore-Murrell Airport in Morristown, Tennessee, in 1953.
She flew into her 90s despite developing eyesight problems and only quit at 96 after a car accident on September 10, 2006 resulted in her undergoing a leg amputation.
Even after that, she continued to manage the airport. Evelyn"s first husband, West. J. Bryan, died on November 11, 1963. On July 21, 2007, Johnson was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio, alongside astronaut Sally Ride and adventurer Steve Fossett, among others
The induction was her sixth such honor.
Johnson"s scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other papers from the period 1930 to 2002 are housed in the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University. Johnson died at the age of 102 years and 6 months in 2012.
Having created, God did not withdraw the divine presence or activity, but remained fully knowledgeable of and engaged with the world. This engagement includes revealing God and God's ways.
Lieutenant colonel Civil Air Patrol, since 1949. Member Civil Air Patrol, Morristown Area Chamber of Commerce, National Association Flight Instructors (board directors, treas 1987-1988, award 1992), Ninety-Nines (Award of Merit 1994), Whirly Girls (plaque 1992, Livingston award 2004, Airport Manager of the Year 2004, Wright Brothers Master Pilot award 2004), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Silver Wings (board directors 1987-2002, Woman of Year 1981, Carl Fromhagen award 1992), United Flying Octogenarians.
Married Wyatt J. Bryan, March 21, 1931 (deceased 1963). Married Morgan N. Johnson, February 25, 1965 (deceased March 1977).