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- Donald William Johnson M.A. B. ED., U.E. of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, passed away peacefully after a brief illness, Feb. 15, 1998, in his 81st year. He was the son of Allie (Orr) and the late Will Johnson, and his Maybee connection came through his father's line. Beloved husband of Kathryn (Tiller), father of Peter and his wife, Angela (Walt) of Scarborough, and Holly and her husband Peter (Belcham) of Scarborough. Beloved Grandfather of Clarissa, Philip, Meredith and Laney Johnson, and brother of Keith of Frankford, Ontario. He was predeceased by his father Will and an infant son, both in 1955.
Don was a graduate of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and the University of Toronto. He began a long teaching career in 1938 in Prince Edward Co., Ontario, with a break from 1943 to 1946 when he served Overseas with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, No. 3 Canadian General Hospital. After the war he joined the Toronto Board of Education and retired in 1980 as an Assistant Area Superintendent. He was born Nov. 29, 1917, on the family farm, Murray Tp, Northumberland Co., Ontario, an area recently amalgamated into 'Quinte West'. His grandmother was Clarissa Ann (Maybee) Johnson 1843-1953, and he inherited his looks from the Maybee side of the family. Indeed he looked very much like his ancestor Robert Maybee 1835-1919, except that his ancestor had a long beard! Don was a descendant of Capt. Abraham Maybee UE. the Loyalist. A memorial service was held in Scarborough on Feb 21, 1998. Cremation was followed by interment in the Stockdale Cemetery, north of Trenton, Ontario, where many of his Maybee ancestors and relations are buried.
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1917 - 1998 (80 years)
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