Longtime Seattle Times journalist Steve Johnston dies at 63
By APFriday, June 18, 2010
Obituary: Seattle Times journalist Steve Johnston
SEATTLE — Steve Johnston, a longtime Seattle Times reporter and columnist, has died.
For years, Johnston wrote a Sunday humor column for the newspaper that occasionally touched on his experience with multiple sclerosis.
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, Johnston may have been best known for daring to call his wife “The Truly Unpleasant Mrs. Johnston” in print nearly every week — after she forbade him from using his initial title for her, “Saint Nancy.”
Information from: The Seattle Times, www.seattletimes.com
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