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Michael T. Johnson Of Sagaponack Dies September 8

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Michael Johnson

Michael T. Johnson of Sagaponack died on September 8, 2019. He was 72.

Mr. Johnson attended the Greenvale School in Greenvale, and graduated from St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire and Syracuse University. Following graduation in 1968, he served with the U.S. Navy at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He then pursued a banking career with JP Morgan in New York City prior to moving to Eastern Long Island, where he joined the Bank of New York in East Hampton, retiring in 1995.

He was a longtime member of the University Club of New York and the Bridgehampton Club.

Mr. Johnson is survived by his brother, Tracy; his sister, Diane Wade; sister-in-law Jane Johnson; two nieces and their husbands, Jennifer and Michael Lannan, and Leslie and Denis Kelly; two nephews, Timothy and Duncan Johnson; and two great-nieces, Lucy Lannan and Hope Kelly.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday, September 28, at 11 a.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton.

Memorial donations may be made to St. Paul’s School, sps.edu/giving, or the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, arfhamptons.org.

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