Translations:Patricia Johnson/3/en

Patricia Anne Johnson was born on December 19, 1927, in New London, Connecticut, just two years before the Great Depression began. Her father, Harris Hennesey, was an ambitious young man who started his career as a store manager with the S. S. Kresge Company. Her mother, Madeline Hennesey, had been a kindergarten teacher in Flint, Michigan before her marriage. The family lost all of their meager savings during the stock market crash in 1929, two years before Patricia’s sister, Jo Anne was born.