Strong, Smart, Caring, Giving, Surviving, Tolerant and Powerful was Marsha Janet Williams-Johnson, a beautiful, unique, kind, and loving lady. Her life’s journey began on Saturday, 21st April 1956. It was the era of “children should be seen and not heard.” She went to high school at Highbury High (which later became the R. M. Bailey High School).

She was blessed with 3 wonderful sons and it was always her dream as it is with most women, to be joined in Holy Matrimony to their knight in shining armor. That dream was realized when she met and married David Andrew “Papa J” Johnson on August 13, 2005.

She had a life-long love affair with butter pecan ice cream and especially fruit cake, which she often secretly hid as pirate’s treasure to consume many weeks later. She took fashion cues from no one. Her signature everyday look belonged only to her and as a point of pride, she daily wrote down in her notepad to remember, every outfit she wore at work and church.

Marsha was sufficiently ambitious, determined, and gifted and there was practically nothing she couldn’t do. She pushed through whatever sense of guilt may be put on her by herself or others, and instead chose to do what’s best for her family.