News Highlights: Malcolm ‘Mac’ Joel Johnson, 77 | Obituaries
On the morning of January 5, 2021, Malcolm “Mac” Joel Johnson of Spartansburg, after a brief battle with septic pneumonia, quietly slipped off this earth in the ICU of St. Vincent Hospital, his two loving daughters at his bedside. In a demonstration of the circle of life, St. Vincent is the same hospital where he was born on October 19, 1943, the son of the late Margaret Ann Welch Johnson and Carlton Joel Johnson.
Malcolm grew up in the suburb of Upper Arlington in Columbus, Ohio, where he attended Catholic schools through the 9th grade. He thought about becoming a priest for a moment, but decided it wasn’t for him because he “loved girls too much.” After transferring to Upper Arlington High School, where he would graduate in 1961, he met the love of his life, Lynette Marie Brissey. They had the same birth date, October 19, decided to share the same birthday date as well, and were married on April 10,
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