Calvin Johnson

On January 22, 2005 CORINE JOHNSON, beloved wife of Calvin Johnson, devoted mother of Calvin Johnson, Jr. and Cheryl J. Duncan, loving sister of Raymond and Wade Emerson, Catherine Nettles and Yvonne Baldwin. She is also survived by nine grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. On Thursday friends may call at THE NEW VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road from 3 to 8 P.M. On Friday, Mrs. Johnson will lie instate at the Pennsylvania Avenue AME Zion, 1128 Pennsylvania Ave., the family will receive friends from 10:30 to 11 A.M. with services to follow.

WASHINGTON - Calvin Johnson got an e-mail from a partner in his lobbying firm yesterday suggesting that they buy season tickets for the city's new baseball team. The message included a prospective schedule so Johnson could reserve some games for client outings. But, Mr. Johnson, the capital doesn't actually have a team right now. No matter, the baseball fan insists, it's coming. Johnson, well practiced in counting votes on Capitol Hill, has studied his baseball politics and feels so confident that the city will finally get a franchise that he's already planning what he'll do when it does.

William Calvin Johnson, a chemist at the old Army Chemical Center in Aberdeen for nearly 40 years and a former instructor at the Dunbar Evening School in Baltimore, died Saturday of natural causes at Union Memorial Hospital.Mr. Johnson, 79, of Ashburton in West Baltimore, was a research analyst who studied the composition of complex chemical compounds at the Harford County facility now known as Aberdeen Proving Ground.Mr. Johnson worked at the facility from 1951 to 1988, and was one of the government's first black chemists.