Jimmy "Jim" Clay Johnson

Jimmy Clay “Jim” Johnson was born October 31, 1944, in San Diego, California to Clay Webster Johnson and Jimmy Marie Meineke Johnson. Jim passed away on November 1, 2025 in Oklahoma City. Services will be held at 11:00 AM on Monday, November 10, 2025 at Crosspointe Church of Norman. Interment will follow at Noble IOOF Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 3-5 PM on Sunday, November 9, 2025 at Tribute Memorial Care. Services are entrusted to Tribute Memorial Care.

Although from the panhandle of Texas where he attended West Texas A & M College, his father was stationed in San Diego serving in the United States Navy. After the end of World War II, they returned to Amarillo, Texas and eventually Borger, Texas. He was saved and baptized at Calvary Baptist Church at the age of 12. Jim attended Borger High School where he played football, played baseball, and was a Golden Gloves boxer. Shortly after high school he helped build the Sanford Dam across the Canadian River to form Lake Meredith in the Texas panhandle. It was in Borger that he met his future wife, Judy Cox, who he later married during a blizzard on February 7, 1964. Together they had five children: Steven Clay, Tracy Lynn, Stuart Wayne, Keith Benton, and Christy Eileen.

Jim was a dedicated worker in the oilfield, being introduced to the industry as a roust- about at Panhandle Pipe and Steel in Borger, Texas shortly after he married. Throughout his career, he served in many capacities including rig hand, rough neck, twin truck operator, salesman, regional station manager, district station manager, and eventually business owner. Jim and Judy soon moved to Crane, Texas where he worked for Crane Well Servicing Company. They then returned to Pampa, Texas in the panhandle where he worked nights on the oil rigs as a rough neck. He became involved in the oilfield fracking industry while working for Producers Chemical in Perryton, Texas and quickly specialized, performing fracking jobs with his services being frequently requested by many oil companies. When Producers Chemical Company sold to Cardinal Fracking Service, Jim was promoted to station manager, relocating him and his growing family back to Borger, Texas. Soon came offers of more promotions which required transfer out of state. Not wanting to transfer to Denver, Colorado with Cardinal; Jim took a position as a pumping operator for NOWSCO in Pampa, Texas where he pumped nitrogen under high pressure to fracture rock formations for oil extraction. By this time, the former district managers of Producers Chemical Company started a new company called SERFCO and hired Jim to work as the station manager continuing his work in designing fracking jobs. Because of his well-known work ethic and expertise in the fracking industry, he was eventually hired as the district manager for Dresser Titan in Bryan, Texas. Following the oil flow, he was transferred to Oklahoma City as a fracking specialist salesman. He remained there until the oil bust of the 1980’s. After a brief employment with BJ Titan and then the Western Oil Company of North America, he started his own business in 1987 called Johnson Pipe Supply and Trucking beginning with a single truck. Johnson Pipe Supply and Trucking purchased, pulled, and refurbished gas and oil well casing, tubing, and rods from plugged wells to resell for “down hole” use. His sons often joined him in the pipe yard working after school in high school, between classes during college, and during summers. Judy managed the office including maintaining financial record, invoicing clients, and mapping delivery routes for the business. Using his fleet of five semi-trucks, pipe and other supplies or materials were delivered across the country. Jim continued to operate Johnson Pipe Supply and Trucking until April of 2025.

Jim enjoyed water skiing, camping, fishing, square-dancing, hunting, car restoration, gardening, bowling, watching John Wayne movies, watching Clint Eastwood movies, good ole boy country music, and sports including boxing, football, baseball, softball, basketball, especially when watching his children and grandchildren play. He was a die-hard Dallas Cowboy and OU Sooners fan. He was a devoted father, friend, and husband.

Jim was preceded in death by his parents Clay and Jimmie Marie Meineke Johnson, and his only sister Janet LeAnn Gober, brother-in-law Tim Gober, niece Kasey Gober Deerdoff, and six cousins. He is survived by his wife of 61 years and 9 months Judy Johnson as well as his five children, 15 grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Children include: Steven and Kelly Hill Johnson of Washington, OK; Tracy and David Grammer of Norman, OK; Stuart and Courtney Roberson Johnson of Dallas, TX; Keith Johnson of Norman, OK; and Christy and Jon Yowell of Coppell, TX. Grandchildren include: Michael and Mackenzie Johnson of Norman, OK; Zachary and Katrina Johnson of Cypress, TX; Jacob and Taylor Johnson of Purcell, OK; Kelsey Johnson of Oklahoma City, OK; Nicholas Johnson Grammer and fiancé McKinely Paratore of Stillwater, OK; Samantha Johnson of Dallas, TX; Ashely Johnson of Dallas, TX; Bailey Johnson of Dallas, TX; Jared Johnson of Dallas, TX; Benton Johnson and fiancé Breanna Miller of Norman, OK; Braydon Johnson of Coppell, TX, Emily Yowell of Denton, TX; Natalie Yowell of Coppell, TX; Jonathan Yowell of Coppell, TX; and Elizabeth Yowell of Coppell, TX. Great grandchildren include Calvin, Hudson, and Gracelyn of parents Michael and Mackenize. His fourth great grandchild Westin is expected in December. He is also survived by two nieces Susan and Daniel West of LaPorte, TX as well as Leah and David Grappe of LaPorte, TX and cousins Debbie Meineke Zanada, Radford Meineke, Jr., and Cheri Meineke Johnson.