The Topeka Daily Capital Friday February 26, 1954 Rev. Herbert Johnson Dies of Heart Attack. The Rev. Herbert A. JOHNSON, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, died from a heart attack early Thursday afternoon while driving his car near 10th and Kansas. The car came to a stop without damaging any other vehicles. and he died before he was taken from the car. He was born in Gilmer, Texas, and came to Topeka in 1923. He was a graduate of the Kansas Baptist Theological Seminary. he was pastor of the Wimberly Baptist Church in Osage City for five years. He was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Eskridge for a short time and then became pastor of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church, a charge he had for seven years. He had been pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church since 1940. He is a former treasurer and vice-president of the Baptist Ministerial Alliance and was a member of the Kaw Valley District Baptist Association, the Kansas State Missionary Baptist Association, The Carver YMCA, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a member of the executive committee of the East Side Improvement Club. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lena L. JOHNSON of the home, 802 Wood; a foster son, Herbert BROOKS, Topeka; two sisters, Mrs. Martha DICK and Mrs. Cleo FINLEY, both of Gilmer, Texas; a half-brother, O.B. WEAVER, Gilmer, Texas; four nephews, including Leon and Nathaniel BROOKS of Topeka, a niece and an aunt.