Mount Pleasant Magazine May/June 2024

63 www.ReadMPM.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.MountPleasantPodcast.com LOVE OF ART I n 1964, when John W. Jones transferred to Bethel Hanberry County School in Blythewood at 13 years old, Millie Johnson was the first girl who spoke to him. They soon found themselves in young love. Fast forward several years later to graduation, and Jones was drafted into the military and all but disappeared, except for the updates that his sister sometimes passed along to Johnson. As time went on, both Jones and Johnson married other people and they lost contact with each other. Then in the late ‘70s, Johnson tracked down Jones, who Unexpired Love Seniors who found love later in life BY SARAH ROSE senior living John W Jones & Millie Waden Johnson-Jones

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