Daniel Johnson Matthews, Senior ~ b. Feb. 14, 1930 - d. November 29, 2010
Daniel Johnson Matthews, Senior died on his beloved Druid Hills, Georgia hilltop after a fine life indeed a few hours earlier this evening with his eldest daughter Sarah at this hand. He was the son of William Collins Matthews and Antionette Johnson Matthews, born in 1930 in Atlanta with a railroading father and nursery school teaching mother. She started what many considered the first private nursery school in Atlanta with the Out of Doors School with "Miss Annette" teaching a large portion of young Atlanta Jewish children of that era. Matthews was a member of Plymouth Congregational Church in Des Moines, Iowa and has many Johnson-Harris reunions at Rock Spring Presbyterian in Atlanta. He worked for many years with Meredith Corporation out of Des Moines, Iowa but had returned to Atlanta in 1985. Matthews represented Lewis Grizzard for other newspapers than the AJC as a syndicator for that newspaper columnist and other content for the Des Moines Register syndicate after lea...