Orville “Tinnie” Johnson, 94, coached baseball and basketball at
Bremerton High School and West Bremerton High School and was a vice principle
and athletic director at the latter school. He coached the 1953 Bremerton
baseball team to the mythical state championship. Johnson also was a Pacific
Coast League basketball official and for many years was the assigning secretary
for the Peninsula Referees Association. A 1932 graduate of Washington State
University, Johnson reportedly left most of his estate to the school.