Barbara Lee Johnson (original) (raw)

, she is survived by her two sisters and their families. She had a second 'family' in Israel with whom she lived for many years, the Whetstones: Sherry and Vernon and their family. Barbara often said she was not interested in the typical occupations available for women in the 1960s. She first earned a degree in Political Science from Southeast Missouri State College. Then, with the encouragement of her instructors Geneva Parmley and Dr. E. Otha Wingo, she received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Art History and Classical Archaeology from the University of Missouri. While there, she met Drs. Saul and Gladys Weinberg. They introduced her to Israel, where she lived full time for thirty years and worked for more than half a century. She received multiple pre-and post-doctoral grants and fellowships: she became an Agora Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and a Visiting Scholar at the Kelsey Museum at the University of Michigan. She certainly achieved her goal of experiencing a world far beyond a small Missouri town!