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Khela Ransier
August 6, 2025
Johanna and I went to the same nursery school more than 70 years ago, and I spent many weekends at her family's apartment in NYC in those days. Wonderful days. Rest easy, dear old friend.
Ron East and Lin Grist
August 5, 2025
what I remember most about Johanna was her generosity and her wry sense of humour.
Liz Coffman
July 31, 2025
So sorry to hear of Johanna´s passing. She was a great friend and wonderful support for me during here time here in Winnipeg. She eventually convinced me to take her position at the art gallery as she moved on. It launched my career and I am forever grateful to her.
Blessings to all who mourn this wonderful woman.
Trisha Chin
July 21, 2025
Farewell my sweet, wonderful cousin. We will meet again to laugh and talk politics once more. Until then, I will miss you so very much. Your memory will live on in the hearts of those of us who loved you.
Rosemary Donegan
July 20, 2025
I was very sorry to read about Johanna´s death in the G&M. Unfortunately, I had lost touch with her and had not seen her in years.
However, I have warm memories of the times we spent together in Toronto in the late 70s/early 1980s. During those years, Johanna took me on as a personal educational project, pressing, prodding and editing my early attempts at writing. She was a great tutor and an avid supporter. Later, through a weird series of coincidences I moved into the same apartment on Delaware Ave that she had lived in previously.
Johanna was a wonderful story teller, an intellect and a funny and fascinating woman. My sympathies to Frank and all her family.
Paul Summerville
July 19, 2025
Deeply saddened to learn of Johanna´s passing. A great friend from our time together at the University of Alberta in 1982 she correctly labelled me as `a lounge act´ encouraging me to take intellectual life more seriously and stop sliding by on my gift of the gab. With her encouragement I went on to do a PhD in Japan which resulted in a 25 year career in investment banking. When I retired in 2004 and I mentioned my interest in running for office over dinner in Toronto she encouraged me to run for the NDP. Remarkably 16 months later I was the NDP candidate in St Paul´s in a much remarked upon campaign. My travels kept me away from Toronto so we kept in touch mostly online. I was very happy to put her name on the list of those people who helped shape my thinking in my book Reclaiming Populism. I´m not sure she read the copy I sent her but I trust she noted the acknowledgment. Johanna was a bright light in my life. Extinguished but still burning bright.
Shelly Litman
July 18, 2025
My deepest condolences on the passing of Johanna. I knew Johanna from my days at Holy Blossom Temple, and she was a lovely and compassionate woman. May her memory be for a blessing.
Judy Malkin
July 18, 2025
To Frank and the rest of Johanna's family, I am so sorry for your loss. I got to know Johanna through the Sisterhood at Holy Blossom Temple and discovered a connection - I had lived in Austin for several years and had often been at Green Pastures. We laughed about the peacocks that often terrified the guests there.
May Johanna's memory be for a blessing and may you and the family know no more sorrows.
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