SEATTLE (AP) — Steve Johnston, a longtime Seattle Times reporter and columnist, has died.
For years, Johnson wrote a Sunday humor column for the newspaper. And from time-to-time he would touch on his experience with multiple sclerosis.
The illness limited his life a bit more each year, but it’s not what killed him. The Times reports the 63-year-old Johnston died Thursday of throat cancer. The MS had weakened him over the years and led him to decline treatment for the cancer diagnosed late last year.
Although he was a skilled breaking-news reporter, Johnson may have been best known as the guy who dared to call his wife, “The Truly Unpleasant Mrs. Johnson,” in print nearly every week. He started calling her that after she forbade him from using his initial title for her, “Saint Nancy.”
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Information from: The Seattle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com
