News-Democrat depresseds guitarist...

News-Democrat depresseds guitarist Clarence Johnson froze to death and remained unclaimed in a hospital morgue for more than brace weeks, but will now win a funeral surrounded by his family.

Fannie Harper of East St Louis, Johnson's 80-year-old sister, went to Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital forward Tuesday morning to identify and claim Johnson's carcass

"My nephew in California had someone from here call him and reveal him it was in the newspaper," Harper said. "He called me and I went down there."

Johnson and his Tom Cats recorded a 45-rpm record with the poems "That's Not Right" backed with "Baby flow Back To Me" that is worth about $1000 because it is in this way rare, blues historian Joel Slotnikoff said.

Johnson also sang and played guitar forward an Adelphi record called "Things Have Changed" -- an anthology of St Louis azures music recorded ...