More Tidbits about the Legendary Johnson Sisters of Wild Horse, Colorado

• Loudilla, Loretta and Kay Johnson also ran the Ronnie Milsap Fan Club for 18 months in the early 1990’s. “The last phone call I answered before we moved from the ranch was from Ronnie,” Kay says.
• Alice Borkosky, the Johnsons’ sister-in-law, recalls a time Loretta Lynn visited the ranch. Olin, Alice’s husband, took her out to see the tractors and the first thing Lynn noticed was the cassette tape playing in the cab of the tractor – a tape by another female singer. That just wouldn’t do. She sent him a Loretta Lynn tape for his tractor.
• Loretta Johnson taught some of the local teens how to dance.
• The IFCO was voted the World’s Most Active Fan Club.
• Mack Johnson built a workroom and office onto the farmhouse for the girls to run the Loretta Lynn Fan Club and IFCO out of. The workroom was lined with shelves for photos and albums.
• Mack Johnson traveled to London for the Wembley Festival seven years in a row with the girls. He also attended Fan Fair every year with them.
• Loretta Lynn also called Mack “Daddy.” In the early years, Mack had a heart attack and was in a hospital in Shadduck, Oklahoma. The girls drove to Denver where Loretta Lynn was performing and told her about their daddy’s heart attack. Lynn rode with them all the way to Shattuck – eight hours – to see him in the hospital.
• The people of Wild Horse never saw Loretta Lynn’s bus pull into town. “She always arrived at the ranch after dark,” Luanna Naugle says.
• The Johnson ranch is still owned by family members.