Former Mayor of Greensboro, Yvonne Johnson has passed away: Mayor Johnson gone at age 82
Mayor Johnson’s children very much involved in sports/athletics around the city of Greensboro…
Son, Walter Johnson Jr., heaviley involved in boxing in the Gate City, plus he has recently doing the PA work for the Dudley Panthers football games…He has also coached youth basketall, and his daughters have excelled in basketball and track…Walter Johnson Jr. promoted local professional boxing bouts, around Greensboro, for many years….
(Walter Johnson Jr.’s wife, was on of the all-time great Female Track Athletes at N.C. A&T University.)
Son, Vernon Johnson has also coached basketball on the Middle School and High School levels in Greensboro…Just few years back he was the coach for the girls team, at Western Guilford High School…
Daugther Lisa Johnson-Tonkins, is currently the Guilford County Clerk of Superior Court..Lisa’s sons and maybe even sons, are very good college baseball players, and have played school ball and travel ball at all levels…Lots of sports in the Yvonne Johnson family and it was unusual at all, to see Mayor Yvonne Johnson at sporting events all over the city…She was a real people person…
Mayor Johnson had another daugther, but we are not sure of her level of sports involvement…With Walter Jr, Vernon, and Lisa, sports and athletics was just second-nature for them…Sport came natural and easy to those folks…
On the death of Yvonne Johnson from WGHP FOX 8 News….www.myfox8.com
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Yvonne Johnson, a local politician with a long tenure in Greensboro has passed away, according to former Mayor Robbie Perkins.
Johnson died on Wednesday morning, surrounded by her family.
Johnson was currently serving as an at-large member and mayor pro-tem of the Greensboro City Council with her term expiring in 2025. She had been in that seat since 2011. Before that, she served as the mayor of Greensboro from 2007-2009. Prior to that, she was a council member from 1993-2007.
She graduated from Dudley High School and Bennett College and received a master’s degree from North Carolina A&T State University.
Johnson led the nonprofit One Step Further for 40 years since it was founded in 1982. She stepped down in May. The organization is described on its website as “a private, nonprofit agency that helps adults, youth, parents and families take positive steps in their lives during times of personal crisis and conflict.”
Johnson was 82.