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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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