Winifred C. Johnson

Winifred Campbell Johnson, of Columbia, died May 26, 2008, of complications from a stroke, at Howard County General Hospital. She was 98.

Born Jan. 31, 1910, in Montevallo, Mo., to Joseph Ameron Campbell and Annie Lee Maxwell Campbell, she graduated from high school in Montevallo.

In the early 1930s, she graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor's degree in English. Then in the mid-1930s, she earned a master's degree in English, also from the University of Missouri.

She married Col. Dwight Collins Johnson in 1938.

Mrs. Johnson taught high school English in Missouri for a year in the late 1930s, prior to relocating with her husband to Japan, where they lived for 15 years.

In 1960, after returning to the United States and settling in Bethesda, she worked as a researcher for the U.S. Census Bureau in Suitland, for 15 years. She retired in the mid-1970s.

She relocated from Bethesda to Columbia in 1998.

Mrs. Johnson had been a resident of Vantage House Life Care Retirement Community for the last seven years.

She was a member of Alpha Phi Sorority, a national organization.

She was predeceased by her husband of 52 years, Col. Dwight Collins Johnson, who died in 1990; two sisters, Grace Jones and Gladys Campbell; and a brother, Joseph Ameron Campbell.

Mrs. Johnson is survived by a daughter and a son-in-law, Sharonlee Johnson Vogel and Robert E. Vogel, of Columbia.

A celebration of her life is slated for June 28, 2008, 2:30 p.m., at Vantage House, 5400 Vantage Point Road, Columbia.

A private interment will follow at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.

Memorial donations may be made to Vantage House Foundation, 5400 Vantage Point Road, Columbia, MD 21044.

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