• 1949 born in Lepanto Arkansas
• Johns father, William Nathanial Son, fell and hit his head and passed away
• Moved to cabin in floodways
• attended Lepanto High School where he played varsity basketball and almost had a scholarship.
• 1957 Moved from AR to Detroit Mi at 18 years old.
• 1973 Married Mary Beth Owen and had first child, Johnny Bruce Son Jr.
• lived in Lapeer Michigan on a lake until there was a grease fire cooking fish 
• 1979 lived in trailer on dequindre in Warren Michigan when Tonya was born untill a tree fell on it.
• 1981 House fire in troy while we were on vacation.
• 1982 bought house in Ferndale
• Worked at Valeron
• Sold Amway
• November 2, 1985  3rd child, Eric Nathanial Son was born
• October 11, 1986 4th child, Adam Willim Son was born.
• 1992 brain aneurysm
• 1994 court and divorce
• Family from AR staged an intervention and took John to California to get clean. 
• 2010 Moved in with Tonya Hervonen in Hazel Park, MI, then moved with them to Warren Mi
• 2014 Moved back to Ferndale to rent a room from Mary Son.
• January 2, 2019 diagnosed with terminal oral/ throat cancer.
• April 1, 2019 passed away.

In 1992 John suffered a cerebral Hemorrhage. Ninety percent of people who suffer from this pass away. Most who survive live with severe disabilities.  John had to have a craniotomy to remove the destroyed piece of his brain. 

He struggled long and hard to learn how to do everything from eating to walking and talking all over again. It was a long grueling battle , and he suffered from brain damage,  personality changes, impulse control struggles,  and a seizure disorder as a result.

Johns siblings Ruby and Gene traveled from Arkansas to aid in his recovery.

He was sent to the emergency room at St John Hospital in Madison Heights, on December 30, 2019 at 3am suffering from severe pain in his throat and neck.

He was intubated for 10 days, during which he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer and transfered to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. 

From there he was sent to Adavantage Living Nursing home in Warren, Mi.

In March of 2019 he was brought home to receive hospice care in the home of his daughter, Tonya', where he stayed until he passed away April 1, 2019.

Ascension St Johns Preformed a biopsy of the tumor at the base of his tongue and of the fluid inside the tumor on January 2, 2019.

This is the pathology report of his cancer.