Bobbie Mae Johnson, daughter of the late Haskell and Robbie Johnson, was born in Fairfield County, South Carolina on January 3, 1945. On the beautiful afternoon of Friday September 15, 2017, she was called home to be with the Lord.

Soon after graduating from Bethel High School in Blythewood, South Carolina in 1963, she moved to New York to pursue her career goals of becoming an educator. After giving birth to her two sons, she received her first degree, a Bachelor of Science in Education from Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York in 1979. After several years of teaching, she decided to return to school and receive a Master of Education, focusing on Special Education in the areas of autism and emotionally handicapped children. For more than 30 years, she touched the lives of every child she taught as well as the educators with whom she worked. Not only did she teach during the week, but she selflessly tutored children on the weekends as well as during the summers. One day after her 65th birthday, she locked her classroom door for the final time and retired after 31 years of teaching.

In her spare time, Bobbie always kept her mind engaged by reading, doing crossword puzzles, and watching her favorite game show, Jeopardy. She was an avid sports fan who could hold a conversation with the best analysts around. Tennis and basketball were her favorites with the Williams sisters and Lebron James being her favorite athletes. Although conservative at heart, you wouldn’t be hard pressed to find her boarding a bus to Atlantic City on the weekends to wind down from a long week of work.

Ms. Bobbie Mae Johnson, predeceased by her parents and two sisters, Earlene Brown and Leila Mae Turnipseed, leaves behind her two devoted sons, Tracy Darren Johnson (Michelle) of Deer Park, New York and Keith LaVelle Johnson (Tabitha) of Orlando, Florida; her loving grandchildren: Chanel Cumberbatch of California, Nacqiah Patterson of Maryland, Cassandra Patterson, Tracy Johnson, Jr, both of New York, KaLaurie Johnson, and Robbie Johnson, both of Florida; her great-grandson, Jackson Cumberbatch; two brothers, Haskell Johnson, Jr. of New York and Ray Charles Johnson of South Carolina; two sisters, Jackie Johnson and Jessie Rogers (Edward), both of South Carolina; as well as many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.