Jerry W. Johnston, 93, a resident of Piper Shores, Scarborough, and Chebeague Island, Maine, formerly of Pasadena, California, died July 4th surrounded by his children Alex and Jennifer, and granddaughter Zoë, while vacationing in England.

He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on September 25, 1932, the son of James W. and Pauline Claussner Johnston. He graduated from the University of Southern California, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded a fellowship which took him to The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts for his M.A. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War.

Jerry met his future wife, Katharine (Kit) Mayer, in Boston, and married on June 8, 1957 in the chapel of St. Luke’s Cathedral, Portland, Maine. His lifework in international banking began with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York that same year. He was soon posted to Lima to manage the bank’s Peruvian affiliate, Banco Continental. Returning stateside four years later he then moved to Los Angeles where he established Chase’s presence on the west coast, serving four years as President of the Chase International Banking Corporation there. He joined Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles for the balance of his international banking career, which included four years in London as managing director of the bank’s activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He retired from the bank as Executive Vice President in charge of the international banking group. Rounding off his career he then took on the assignment of managing Mitsui Bank’s California subsidiary, spending three years as President of Manufacturers Bank, Los Angeles.

After retiring from active bank management, he spent many years as a consultant in the financial services field, working with public and private entities in the developing economies of Latin America and Eastern Europe. His community activities reflected his varied interests: he served on the boards of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra, the Hillsides Home for Children in Pasadena, several boards of counselors at the University of Southern California, and the Portland Symphony Orchestra.

He was a lifelong tennis enthusiast, enjoying his memberships in The Queens Club in London, The Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena, and the Chebeague Island Tennis Club where he was a founding member. He was also a keen cyclist; together with his wife Kit they biked the backroads of France, Italy and New Zealand as well as their local neighborhoods. He and his wife summered on Chebeague all their married life, and had many happy adventures cruising down east along the Maine coast, and sailing around their home waters of Casco Bay.

He took great pride and joy in his family: Kit, his beloved wife of 60 years; daughter Jennifer and her husband Charley Rego and their children: Jeffrey, Rebecca and Elizabeth; son Alexander and his wife Maryjane and their children: Zoë and Isabel; and great-granddaughter Quinn Emily Rego and great-grandsons Maximilian Novak Rego and Rishi Choudhury. Family outings over the years ranged from Hawaii to the West Indies, from Paris to Mexico, and many lazy summers on Chebeague. Since 2005 he and his late wife lived at Piper Shores, a retirement community on the coast of southern Main