BILL MAX JOHNSON was called home Saturday, 01/29/2022. Born in Franklin, IN 12/30/1930, graduated Fort Lauderdale High School in 1948, served the USN aboard aircraft carrier USS Boxer between 1951 and 1954, lived in California working for Wells Fargo in latter part of the 1950s, moved to Miami meeting wife Harriet Claire Bose at U.M. in the early 1960s, worked at Merchant’s Bank of Miami and Commercial Bank of Florida, retired from bank-industry in 1998 moving to Otto, NC, in 2003 moved back to Florida to reside near daughter Suzanne and grandson Chris, son Robert daughter-in-law Aimee and grand-twins Ryan and Sierra in Miami, and his beloved sister-in-law Lottie May Bose in Melbourne, FL. Dad was a devoted role model, serving Christ through memberships, teaching and leading at South Miami Lutheran, University Baptist and Idlewild Baptist Churches. We are most grateful for your 91 years of God-Fearing, Family-Loving and Country-Serving LIVING…miss you Pops!!! Celebration of Life Service at Idlewild Baptist Church at 11:00AM this Saturday, 02/05/2022, 18333 Exciting Idlewild Boulevard, Lutz, FL 33548.
I met Mr. Johnson when I was a young man and he was working at Merchants Bank in Miami. I went into the bank to see him because I had bounced a check and he taught me how to never bounce a check again. Later in my life my wife and I were members of University Baptist Church in Coral Gables where Bill and his wife Harriet attended. He always took an interest in our family and never failed to ask how our so. was doing. He was one of the kindest gentlemen I’ve ever known and I am a better person for having known him.