Born as Evelyn Stone in
Corbin, Kentucky, she was a graduate of
Tennessee Wesleyan College. As a young woman, she taught school in
Etowah, Tennessee. Later she attended the
University of Tennessee. She married Wyatt Jennings "W.J." Bryan and learned to fly in 1944, while he was serving in the
Army Air Corps and the couple was living in
Jefferson City, Tennessee. She logged 57,635.4 flying hours, and was the oldest flight instructor in the world. She trained more pilots and gave more
FAA exams than any other pilot. She was named in the
Guinness Book of World Records as having the most flying hours of any woman and the most of any living person. Johnson became manager of the
Morristown Regional Airport in
Morristown, Tennessee, in 1953. Johnson's first husband, W. J. Bryan, died on November 11, 1963. In 1965, she married Morgan Johnson, who died in 1977. alongside astronaut
Sally Ride and adventurer
Steve Fossett, among others. The induction was her sixth such honor. Johnson's scrapbooks, memorabilia, and other papers from the period 1930 to 2002 are housed in the
Archives of Appalachia at
East Tennessee State University. Johnson died at age 102 in 2012. ==See also==