Bay Ridge mom organizes blood drive in memory of her son
Mathiew Johnson, a school custodian, always joined his mother June Johnson when she went to donate blood at various blood drives in their community of Bay Ridge over the years.
So when June Johnson was looking for a way to pay tribute to Mathiew, who died of a sudden heart attack last year while on the job, she thought a blood drive would be the perfect vehicle.
“We were always going to blood drives. Mathiew felt very strongly that if you could help someone, you should,” June Johnson, a retired school secretary, told the Brooklyn Eagle. “I thought holding a blood drive in his name would be the best way for people to remember him.”