{"id":5260,"date":"2026-03-25T08:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:46:50","slug":"kendall-m-johnson-smith-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2026\/03\/25\/kendall-m-johnson-smith-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendall M. Johnson-Smith &#8217;99"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2026\/03\/Kendall-Johnson-Smith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"95\" height=\"143\" src=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2026\/03\/Kendall-Johnson-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5261\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Kendall M. Johnson-Smith of South Hadley, MA and Brooklyn, NY passed away on March 3, 2026. Receiving her education from Williston Northampton School, DePaul and Fordham Universities, Kendall was a clinical psychotherapist and mental health consultant.<br><br>She leaves her parents, Teena Wilson and Preston Smith II, their spouses, Ric Wilson and Lynda Pickbourn, her two brothers, Nii Kwei Smith and Eris Johnson-Smith &#8217;98, a sister-in-law Coco Killingsworth and a nephew and niece, Ehze and Asali Johnson-Smith.<br><br>There will be a memorial service on August 8, 2026 in New York City. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/kendall-m-johnsonsmith-memorial-scholarship-fund\" title=\"\">Kendall M. Johnson-Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about Kendall&#8217;s accomplishments and hear her remarks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.williston.com\/person\/kendall-m-johnson-smith\/\" title=\"\">2024 Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendall M. Johnson-Smith of South Hadley, MA and Brooklyn, NY passed away on March 3, 2026. Receiving her education from Williston Northampton School, DePaul and Fordham Universities, Kendall was a clinical psychotherapist and mental health consultant. She leaves her parents, Teena Wilson and Preston Smith II, their spouses, Ric Wilson and Lynda Pickbourn, her two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2026\/03\/25\/kendall-m-johnson-smith-99\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kendall M. Johnson-Smith &#8217;99<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[380],"tags":[780,283],"class_list":["post-5260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","tag-class-of-1999","tag-williston-northampton-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5264,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions\/5264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}