Obituaries

Earnest D. 'Bull' JohnsonD.C. Principal

Earnest Douglas "Bull" Johnson, 68, an athletic coach and administrator in D.C. public schools who retired in 1995 as principal of Phelps High School, died Oct. 1 at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham after a heart attack.

Starting in 1968, Mr. Johnson worked at Eastern High School for about 20 years. He was a health and physical education teacher and coached the football, basketball and golf teams. He was Eastern's assistant principal when he left for Phelps.

He helped introduce a traditional academic component to Phelps, which had been a vocational school where students took academic classes at nearby Spingarn High School. He was a recipient of many school service awards.

Mr. Johnson, an Upper Marlboro resident, was a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., where he was captain of his high school football team. After high school, he served in the Army and played on service teams in football, baseball, basketball and boxing.

He was a 1968 health and physical education graduate of North Carolina A&T University.

Survivors include his wife, Sandra Gray Johnson, whom he married in 1967, of Upper Marlboro; two children from his marriage, Ernie "Ricky" Johnson and Victoria J. Wilkerson, both of Upper Marlboro; a daughter from a previous relationship, Stephanie Boothe of Albany, N.Y.; four brothers, Victor Johnson Jr. of Winston-Salem, Raymond Johnson of New York, Ivory Johnson of Clarksville, N.C., and David Johnson of Baltimore; a sister, Helen D. Johnson of Winston-Salem; and a granddaughter.

-- Adam Bernstein

Elizabeth S. WarburtonRegistered Nurse

Elizabeth Schettig Warburton, 94, a registered nurse who spent more than 30 years working for the Group Health Association, an early health management organization in the Washington area, died Oct. 2 at Summerville at Woodward Estate, an assisted living home in Bowie, after a heart attack.

Mrs. Warburton worked for the Group Health Association until 1980 and then spent several more years as the nursing supervisor for the World Bank's health clinic. In the 1990s, she did volunteer work at Montgomery General Hospital in Olney.

She was a native of Carrolltown, Pa., and a 1934 graduate of Temple University nursing school. She was a nurse for Philadelphia hospitals until settling in the Washington area in 1948.