- Date Of Birth: June 9, 1944
- Date Of Death: April 29, 2021
- State: Colorado
On April 29, 2021, Martha (“Marty”) Jane (Bernier) Johnson passed into eternity, a month before her 77th birthday. Marty was born in Westbrook, Maine on June 9, 1944. She shared the same birthday with her mother, Erleen (Ingalls) Bernier. At the age of nine, she moved with her family to Bremerton, WA. There, she met her husband, Edward (Ed) M. Johnson, when they were both young teenagers. In 1962, Marty graduated from West High School in Bremerton, where she was a varsity cheerleader and Homecoming Queen.
“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” (Romans 12:1-2, The Message)
Marty was survived by her husband of nearly 58 years, Edward M. Johnson Sr., their children and their children’s families: Son – Edward M. Johnson Jr. and his wife Mary; Grandson Daniel, his wife Ayla, and Granddaughter Abigail and her husband Jason; Daughter – Susan J. (Johnson) Antonsen and her husband Don; Grandson Benjamin and Granddaughter Camille; Son – Matthew P. Johnson and his wife Franziska; Grandsons Peter and Samuel. She was also survived by her younger sister, Susan (Bernier) Henshaw. She was predeceased by her father, Frederic, mother, Erleen, and younger brother, Peter.
