Celebrating the life of Wesley "Wes" Johnson

On January 11 ^th 2018 Wesley Austin Johnson passed away with his family at his side in Phoenix Arizona. Wes was born January 4 ^th , 1982 in Salinas California.

Wesley is survived by his son Zane; Wesley's parents, Noel and Anna Johnson/Cosseboom, and Martin Johnson; sisters, Audra (Harry) Madsen and niece Julia; Alyson (Bryson) Burpo and nieces Kaylee and Kendyl; paternal grandparents, Gene and Frankie Johnson; uncle and aunt, Alan and Claire Schumacher.  He is preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Walter and Laureta Schumacher and Aunt Lynette Johnson Duquin.

Wesley is the youngest of our family, however he was a "Protector and Champion" to his sisters and all who he loved so dearly. Wesley lived his life his way! Everything he did was extreme and heartfelt. Whether Wesley was skateboarding, snowboarding, wakeboarding or fishing with his best buddy Matt, he did it with every bit of his being.

Wesley was instrumental in the development of the Greenfield skate park. Attending city council meetings and writing letters until it was built. Never did he dream his own son Zane would skate there! Wes loved to sit and watch Zane skate where he himself would spend countless hours there with his many friends. If younger kids came to skate and needed new wheels or bearings Wes would dig in his tool chest and fix them up.

Donations can be sent in Wesley's Memory to, his church in Phoenix Arizona, Crosspoint Baptist Church, 3435 West Pinnacle Peak Road, Phoenix, AZ 95027 or to, Liberty Chapel in Soledad, 274 Kidder St., Soledad CA 39360

We love you Wes, "TILL THE WHEELS FALL OFF!"

The Next Place

The next place that I go will be as peaceful and familiar as a sleepy summers Sunday and a sweet, untroubled mind.  And yet……it won't be anything like any place I have ever been before, seen or even dreamed of. In the place I leave behind I won't know where I'm going and I won't know where I've been as I tumble through and look back toward the when. I'll glide beyond the rainbows. I'll drift above the sky. I'll fly into the wonder without ever wondering why. I won't remember getting there. Somehow ill just arrive but I'll know that I belong there and will feel much more alive than I have ever felt before. I will be absolutely free of the things that I held onto that were holding onto me. The next place I go will be so quiet and so still. The next place that I go won't really be a place at all there won't be any seasons, winter, summer, spring or fall. Not a Monday, Friday, December or July and the seconds will be standing still while hours hurry by. I will simply be me, no worse or better than. I won't be fat or tall. The body I once lived in won't be a part of me at all. I will finally be perfect. I will be without a flaw. I will ever make one more mistake or break the simplest law. The me that was impatient or hungry will simply be a memory.  The me I left behind. I will travel empty handed. There is not a single thing I have collected in my life that I would ever want to bring except the love of those who loved me, and the warmth of those who cared. The happiness and memories and magic that we shared. Though I will know the joy of solitude I'll never be alone. I'll be embraced by all my family and friends and the circle of our spirits will shine brighter than the sun. I will cherish all my friendship I was fortunate to find all the love and all the laughter in the place I leave behind. All these good things will go with me. They will make my sprit glow and that light will shine forever in the next place I go.

SERVICE INFORMATION:
A FUNERAL SERVICE will be held at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 at Liberty Chapel, address: 274 Kidder Street, Soledad, CA 93960.
Burial will follow at Oak Park Cemetery in Greenfield.