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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University November 14, 2005 | Vol. 35 No. 11
 
Memorial Service to Be Held for Jennifer Johnson of Sociology

The School of Arts and Sciences' Department of Sociology and the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute are planning a memorial service for associate research scientist and lecturer Jennifer Johnson, who died on Aug. 3 of lung cancer. Johnson, who earned her doctorate from Johns Hopkins in 1996, was the wife of the late Kenneth Johnson, director of the Mind/Brain Institute, who died May 12 of colon cancer.

The service is scheduled for 4 to 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 21, in the Great Hall of Levering Hall, Homewood campus.

Jennifer Johnson was born on July 28, 1949, in New South Wales, Australia, and grew up in rural Wagunyah, where her parents, Charles and Betty Knott, ran the town's general store. After attending the University of Melbourne with a government fellowship, she married Lindsay Morris and had a son, Benjamin James, who survives her. She came to the United States in 1980 when her second husband, Kenneth Johnson, accepted a position at Johns Hopkins.

Her dissertation, "Getting By On the Minimum: The Lives of Working Class Women," was published as a book by Routledge Press in 2002.

In addition to her son, Johnson is survived by her mother, daughter-in-law, two grandchildren, three siblings and several nephews.

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