Johnson Thomas "Sarge"

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Thomas "Sarge" Johnson is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

U.S. Boxing Team Memorial

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Thomas "Sarge" Johnson

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Sergeant

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Date of Death:

1980-03-14

State:

Indiana

Cemetery:

Lincoln Memory Gardens, Whitestown, Indiana

Plot:

Garden of the Last Supper, Plot 208B

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Born March 26, 1921, Johnson was a retired army sergeant who is best remembered as the trainer for the highly successful 1976 U.S. Olympic boxing team, a squad that included Sugar Ray Leonard, Michael Spinks, Howard Davis, Leon Spinks, Leo Randolph and John Tate. He was also among those who helped groom Indianapolis' Marvin Johnson to become a world champion light heavyweight. He was killed with the 1980 U.S. National Boxing team in a crash near Warsaw, Poland. Indianapolis' Sarge Johnson Boxing Center was named in his honor, as was the Thomas "Sarge" Johnson Scholarship.