In Memory

Jeffrey Johansson

Los Angeles, CA—Jeffrey Miller Johansson died in his home in Southern California on November 19, 2021.  A celebration of his life will be held at Crimson View, Union Building on the University of Utah campus on March 19, 2022 from 4pm to 6pm.

Jeff was born in Salt Lake City and grew up on the Avenues.  He graduated from East High School and attended the University of Utah, where he received his Bachelor's Degree in Psychology.  He later received his Master's Degree from Antioch University.  After College he married Diane Keate and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career at Boys Republic, a treatment community for troubled teenagers.  Also, to raise his children, Jaimie and Seth.

Jeff was a constant reader as well as a traveler, exploring both the world of experience and the world of the mind, with each realm informing and shaping his understanding of the other and of the totality of our existence.  He immersed himself in Russian literature, sociology, psychotherapy, and Buddhism.  He always drove a late-model Mustang, and he loved the music of Beatles.  In his final years, despite failing health, he wrote essays, articles, and poetry memorializing his unique understanding of the times in which he'd lived.  Jeff, you left us much too soon.

Jeff is preceded in death by his sister, Jeri Schoenhals, his parents, Marilyn and Julian Johansson.  Jeff will be lovingly remembered by his children, Jaimie (Derek) Kurkowski, Seth (Asia) Johansson, his grandchildren Colin, Brooke, Kenzie, Luke, Lindsey Kurkowski and Olivia, Emma, Ezra Johansson, his children's mother, Diane Keate, his sister Julie Latter and many nieces, nephews and cousins.


Published in The Salt Lake Tribune, March 7-18, 2022







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