Linda Taylor Johnson-Flowe
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Linda Johnson-Flowe, 60, a retired official with the D.C. government's old Youth Services Administration, died Oct. 7 of a heart
attack while on a Carnival cruise sailing from Norfolk to the Caribbean. She lived in Upper Marlboro. Ms. Johnson-Flowe worked
for many years as a supervisor in the acquisitions office of what is now called the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.
She retired in 2004.
She was born Linda Taylor in Washington and was known to friends and family as Poochie. She graduated from Roosevelt
High School in the District and attended Norfolk State University. Throughout her youth and frequently in later years, she worked
at the family produce business at the D.C. Farmers Market in Northeast Washington.
Her marriages to Montez Johnson and Phillip Flowe ended in divorce.
Survivors include a son from her first marriage, Brandon Johnson, and her mother, Beatrice Taylor, both of Upper Marlboro; a
sister, Delores Williams of Upper Marlboro; and three brothers, Melvin Taylor of London, retired Army Sgt. 1st Class Gregg
Taylor of Columbia, S.C., and Ronnie Taylor of Washington.
-- Matt Schudel