Patricia Johnson, Realtor, photographer

Patricia K. Johnson of 538 North Salem Road, a former Realtor who had also been a teacher and an award-winning photographer, died on Monday, Sept. 9, at her home.
She was 76 years old and the wife of Warren C. Johnson. They had been married 50 years.
Mrs. Johnson was born in Chicago, Ill., on July 14, 1926, a daughter of the late Walter G. and Katherine LaMont Faist. She grew up in Birmingham and Milford, Mich., and attended schools there. She graduated from Antioch College in Ohio and began her career as a teacher at a nursery school of the University of Illinois. She later taught third grade in California.
The Johnsons moved to Ridgefield in 1961. Mrs. Johnson became a real estate agent, working at first for Hackert and Monti and then A.J. Carnall, before starting her own firm, Trinity Real Estate, in the 1980s.
She was a serious amateur photographer and recipient of many photography awards as a member of the Candlewood Camera Club and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists. She specialized in photographs of flowers, both wild and garden varieties, and had exhibited her work with the camera club and the guild, and at the Richter Art Center in Danbury.
Mrs. Johnson was diagnosed with cancer 20 years ago. “Her strong faith, positive attitude and determination were an inspiration and encouragement to all who knew her,” her family said.
For the past five years, she had participated in Ann’s Place, The Home of I Can, a cancer support group in Danbury.
Mrs. Johnson was a charter member of St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, where she was a lector and a member of the Altar Guild.
“Her main interests were family, friends and church,” her family said. “She also enjoyed duplicate bridge, nature, particularly wildflowers and birds. Golf and football on television was also her passion as well as the University of Connecticut girl’s basketball team, reading and writing, wholesome jokes, crafts and cooking.”
Besides her husband, Mrs. Johnson is survived by a daughter: Gail and her husband Brian Quinn of Raleigh, N.C.; a son: Blake Carl Johnson and his wife Donna of Upper Frenchtown, Maine; and five grandchildren: Tim, Trevor and Taylor Johnson of Upper Frenchtown, and Tracy and Tyler Quinn of Raleigh. She also leaves her dog, Trinket.
Services will take place today, Thursday, at 11 a.m. in St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, 6 Ivy Hill Road. Burial will take place in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Contributions in her memory may be made to Ann’s Place, The Home of I Can, Suite 210, Peacock Alley, 1 Padanaram Road, Danbury, CT 06811 or to Regional Hospice of Western Connecticut, 405 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810.