Ex-Colo. legislator Joan Johnson, 64
Posted: Friday, May 23rd, 2008 2:48 pmA former state senator who had failed to return her friends’ phone calls was found dead in her Adams County house Thursday after the sheriff’s office was asked to do a check.
Friends of Joan Johnson, both Democrat and Republican, are mourning her her death. She was 64. …
Friends say Johnson got sick with what seemed like respiratory flu after a trip to Las Vegas earlier this month. …
Johnson was born Dec. 4, 1943, in Denver, and graduated in 1965 from the University of Colorado. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tehran, Iran, in 1966. The Adams County Democrat was twice elected to the state Senate, in 1990 and 1994. … Read full obituary
