Doing the Right Thing

Strong is only one of the words friends and colleagues used to describe Gerri Johnson. Dignity, compassion and courage were a few others.

She had simple loves: family, work, music, fitness. “Cancer eventually robbed her of each of her loves,” said her life partner Chip Brewer. Gerri was diagnosed with Stage I ovarian cancer in January 2001 at the age of 45. But throughout her four-year battle with cancer, she never let the disease become her identity.

Download the pdf at left to read the story originally published in our 2004 Annual Report to the Community.