Margaret "Marge" C. Johnson, 93, died Friday, October 27, 2017.  After a weeklong hospitalization, she died peacefully in her sleep.

She leaves her son, Robert Johnson and wife Linda of Severna Park, Maryland; son William Johnson and wife Beth of Columbia, Maryland; son J. Michael Johnson and wife Julie Dugan of Wilmington, Delaware; daughter Susan Fisher and husband Keith of Annapolis, Maryland; daughter Margaret "Peggy" Allen and husband Ron of Mount Airy, Maryland; grandchildren Jeffrey, Carrie, Jennifer, Andrew, Christopher, Laura, Allison, Stacy, Sarah, Daniel, Zachary, William and Jillian and ten great-grandchildren.  Her brother Richard Cutler and family, and the family of her late brother James also survive her.

She was preceded in death by her husband William P. Johnson in 1999.

Born to her parents James and Helen Cutler in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 11, 1924, she relocated as a young child with her family to Baltimore, Maryland.  Her father worked as an engineer for the construction of the Conowingo Hydroelectric Dam on the Susquehanna River.

Marge graduated from Friends School in Baltimore, where she remained and went on to study as a pianist at the Peabody Conservatory.  When on summer vacation, she enjoyed camp in Maine.  She served in the United States Naval Women's Reserve (the "WAVES") during World War II.  She was a member of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church.  She married on September 20, 1952, and began her life as a homemaker, raising her five children with her husband.

She lived for the first year of her marriage in the Bay Forest subdivision of St. Mary's County, Maryland while her husband built the first homes there.  But many more years were spent raising all of the children in suburban Parkville north of Baltimore until 1968.  At that time, her husband joined The J. F. Johnson Lumber Company, founded years before by his father and uncle, and she and her family relocated to Arnold, Maryland, where she continued as mother and homemaker busily raising her children.  Outside of home, activities included employment at times, and she was the Secretary for the original board of directors of Ulmstead Swim Club.

She was especially fond of needlework, including needlepoint, crochet, knitting and cross-stitching.  Many projects centered on Christmas and Ocean City.  She created beautiful stockings personalized for each grandchild to hang by the fireplace on Christmas Eve, and once took several years to complete an intricate Christmas tablecloth.  She also enjoyed beach themes in her projects, arising from summer beach vacations in New Jersey and Maryland from childhood on up.  When old age limited her abilities, she still enjoyed car rides, visits from family and working together on her crossword puzzles over the phone.

Friends may visit on Friday November 3, 2017 from 4-7p.m. and Saturday November 4, 2017 from 10-11a.m. in the Barranco & Sons,P.A. Severna Park Funeral Home 495 Ritchie hwy. Severna Park, MD 21146. Services will be held on Saturday November 4, 2017 at 11a.m. in the funeral home chapel. Interment in the Glen Haven Memorial Park Cemetery.