Eric B. Johnson, 94

A service for Eric B. Johnson, who died on Dec. 29, will be held on June 6 at 1 p.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton. 

Mr. Johnson, who was 94, lived most recently on Toilsome Lane in East Hampton, but had lived on Dayton Lane for 57 years before that. 

Born on Dec. 9, 1923, to Arvid and Sigrid Johnson, he was a member of East Hampton High School’s class of 1942. He served as a technical sergeant with the Army’s 38th Signal Corps from 1942 to ’46, taking part in the invasion of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He “personified America’s greatest generation,” his family wrote. 

Mr. Johnson went to Sampson College in upstate New York. He worked for the New York Telephone Company and Sam’s restaurant in East Hampton. He was married to Rose S. Nasca on April 17, 1949; she died in 2001.

Mr. Johnson was a past commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 550, a member of the East Hampton Fire Department, and had been secretary of the East Hampton Town Little League and a leader of East Hampton Boy Scout Troop 102. 

He is survived by a son, Thomas A. Johnson of East Burke, Vt., and by two grandchildren. His ashes are to be buried at the family plot at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery. 

His family has suggested memorial contributions to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America at alzfdn.org, or the American Diabetes Association at diabetes.org.