February 3, 2021
Richard C. Johnston Sr. (Dick) passed peacefully surrounded by family at Beebe Healthcare in Lewes Monday, Feb. 1, 2021.
Richard was born at home in Burnham, Pa., to Avril Creighton and F. Lloyd Bay. At a young age, his mother remarried and he was adopted by James Johnston. Dick grew up in Flushing, Queens, N.Y. In 1956 he married his high school sweetheart, Patricia Ann Trapp. While raising a young family, he worked full time and attended Pace University in the evenings, graduating in 1964.
Mr. Johnston worked most of his career in the textile industry for West Point Pepperell, living and working in Ohio and North Carolina. In 1967 he was promoted to a senior executive position in NYC and moved the family to Manalapan, N.J., where they resided until 1990. Dick was dedicated to his family and wife Pat; they were inseparable. While living in New Jersey, Dick coached recreation basketball and was a Eucharistic minister and lector at St. Gabriel’s Pa