LEWISTOWN BROTHERS’ DREAM TURNS INTO A DONATION IN THEIR MEMORYApril 1, 2021 in djpost In 2012, the Johnson brothers in Lewistown decided to begin creating a giant copper ball made of copper wire stripped from old appliances and car parts to see how big they could make it. Cecil Johnson who owned Johnson’s Garage kept the ball at his garage and they would add to it whenever there was time and material to add to it. The world record for a copper wire ball is 922 pounds and Cecil hoped to someday break the record. In 2013, Cecil was diagnosed with lung cancer, but he and his colleagues continued to work on the ball until May 2013 when the garage had to close because of Cecil’s cancer. He passed away in November 2013.