Kenneth Roger Johnson ’52

Kenneth Roger Johnson ’52, M.D., of Cary, North Carolina, passed away peacefully at home on May 28, surrounded by his wife and children. Ken was born on September 2, 1930, and grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, among a close-knit Swedish community. He graduated from Bassick High School in Bridgeport and then Dartmouth with a chemistry-zoology major. He was a member of Delta Upsilon. He earned a medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. After medical school and an internship, he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, during which time he was stationed in Long Beach, California. It was there he met Jean, his wife of nearly 63 years. Ken and Jean moved in 1959 to Richmond, Virginia, where Ken completed his residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical College of Virginia. In 1962 they moved to northern Virginia, where they raised a family and Ken practiced medicine at Alexandria Hospital for almost 40 years. Ken retired to Cary in 2007, and they moved to the same neighborhood as their daughter and her family. Throughout his life, Ken enjoyed playing golf and was an avid sports fan. He is survived by Jean, daughter Anne and son-in-law Robert, son Roger and daughter-in-law Kim, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.