Brother Allen E. Johnson Jr., F.S.C., dies at 78

A funeral Mass for De La Salle Christian Brother Allen E. Johnson Jr. was offered May 22 at La Salle Hall Chapel in Beltsville. Brother Allen died May 4. He was 78.

Brother Allen entered religious life in 1966 at the Christian Brothers’ Ammendale Novitiate in Maryland. He pronounced his perpetual vows in Philadelphia in 1974.

Brother Allen served at Calvert Hall College High School in Towson 1977-85. Elsewhere, he served in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and New Jersey.

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