Jeanette Miriam Johnsom Obituary

Jeanette Miriam Johnson (Byrnes), passed peacefully at home, with family, on October 14, 2022. She was born in Gloucester on October 14, 1928, with her twin sister Constance Byrnes, and was the daughter of the late Retter Lorena (Joyce) and Andrew Byrnes.

She was raised with 6 brothers and sisters and grew up in Gloucester and Rockport. She met her high school sweetheart and love of her life Bob Johnson, in her sophomore year. They were together for the next 70 years and married for 67 of them until his passing in 2004.

They spent most of their younger years in the house Bob built in West Gloucester on Atlantic Street, where they raised their two boys and later, their granddaughter. They did spend a few years in New Jersey with her sister Miriam, where she helped raise her nieces Patti and Donna.

She was an artist and poet who loved to sit on the cut and watch the people and boats go by. She drove a school bus for many years and always had a special place in her heart for children. She helped many families by watching some of those children for their parents over the years. She grew a special bond and became a "pseudo" grandmother to two of those boys and loved them like her own.

She loved to travel and took two trips across country in a motorhome with Bob and Carina, having traveled to all the lower 48 states and parts of Canada. She enjoyed baking and cooking for people, always trying to feed anyone who walked in her door.

A few years ago, she met her very special friend Ken at bingo, also of Gloucester MA, who brought years of joy and companionship to her life until her passing.

She is survived by her granddaughter Carina Johnson and Douglas Dunham Jr.; great granddaughters Kaitlyn Dunham, Madison Dunham and Abbigayle Dunham, all of Rochester, NH.; also her "grandsons" Trey and Bevan of Gloucester, MA.

She was preceded in death by her parents, siblings, husband, two sons and granddaughter.

Services and burial will be held privately. Arrangements are by the Greely Funeral Home, 212 Washington St. Gloucester.