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Ann Conway Savoy Johnson

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Ann Conway Savoy Johnson, 78, the surviving spouse of the late Rev. Charles A. Johnson, died Dec. 30, 2018, in Upper Marlboro. A funeral service was held Jan. 11, 2019, at Jolley Memorial Chapel, P.A. in Salisbury. The Rev. Bernadette Beckett, pastor of Wesley Temple UMC in Salisbury, officiated.

 Ann Conway was born Oct. 25, 1936, in Clara, Md., the youngest daughter of the late Rev. James A. Conway and Irene Wright Conway. She received her formal education in the public schools of Wicomico County, graduating in 1954 from the former Salisbury High School. She then studied at Atlantic Business College and Strayer Business School.

Johnson worked for the US Department of Justice for 40 years as an Administrative Assistant.  After retirement, she was employed with the Prince George's County Board of Education and the Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church.

She and Charles Johnson married in 1982, a second marriage for each, at which time he served Northwood-Appold until 1986. He was then appointed to Sharp Street Memorial until he went on disability leave in 1991.

She was a member of St. Paul UMC in Oxon Hill, where she was active on various committees.

Preceding her in death were her husband the Rev. Charles A. Johnson, II and a daughter Cara Savoy, who died a few months apart in 2011; and seven siblings.

Survivors include a son Walter B. (Kayla) Savoy, Jr. of Atlanta; three step-daughters: Charlynne O. and Crystal A. Johnson, both of Baltimore, and Caron A. Johnson of Landover; four grandchildren and three step-great-grandchildren.

 

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