The Topeka Daily Capital Saturday November 3, 1951 Ralph Leonard Johnson. Ralph Leonard JOHNSON, 828 Clay, died Friday in a Topeka hospital after an illness of some months. Born in Topeka in 1902, Mr. Johnson left the city 25 years ago to work for the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. Before that he had worked for the Santa Fe shops. He returned to Topeka this September. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Ruth Barber; two brothers, Paul J. Johnson, 828 Clay, and Hubert J. Johnson, 1225 Buchanan; three aunts, Mrs. Ada Daniels and Mrs. Mabel Divers, both of Topeka, and Della Roberts, St. Louis; three uncles, Gilbert Jackson, Topeka and James and Ed Johnson, both of Los Angeles; eight nephews and one niece.