Glen Walden Johnson passed away peacefully on June 30, 2024, from complications due to Lewy Body Dementia.  He was 76 years old.  He was predeceased by his parents, Curtis and Myrtle (Rush) Johnson, and his wife, Jennifer (Dodge) Johnson.  Glen is survived by his sister, Flora Johnson Chamlin, brothers-in-law, several nieces and nephews, and many friends and Friends (Quakers), who all cared for him deeply.  Glen was a long-time member of the Croton Valley Friends Meeting in NY, and prior to that, the Mt. Toby Meeting of Friends in Leverett, MA.

Born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1947, Glen attended primary schools in Ames, Iowa, Quetta, Pakistan, and in Amherst, Massachusetts.  In 1965, he graduated from Frontier Regional High School in So. Deerfield, Massachusetts, and in 1970, he graduated from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with a B.S. degree in Physics.  During his undergraduate training, he spent a year in France, primarily at the University of Besancon, and as a co-op student through Antioch, worked at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, at the Argonne National Laboratory, and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.  He went to graduate school at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York, at the Institute of Optics, and graduated with a PhD in Optical Physics in 1980.

Directly from graduate school, Glen was hired by IBM Research and Development in Yorktown Heights, NY.  Glen lived in Yorktown Heights from 1982 until 2020, when he moved to Massachusetts to be closer to family when Covid and early signs of dementia made life difficult to manage alone.

There will be a memorial service to celebrate Glen’s life on Sunday, September 29, 2024, at the Mt. Toby Meeting of Friends, 194 Long Plain Rd. (Route 63), Leverett, MA.  

Reminiscences, conversation and refreshments from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m., Memorial Meeting in the manner of Friends from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, please consider contributing to research on Lewy Body Dementia at: https://giving.brighamandwomens.org

Memorial guestbook at www.douglassfuneral.com