The Pinehurst City Council met Tuesday morning in the Grady L. Johnson Council Chamber at the City Hall. The meeting held a more somber mood with the death of longtime Pinehurst businessman and former mayor Grady Johnson on Monday. Council member T. W. Permenter served with Johnson on the Pinehurst City Council, but Permenter also knew Johnson as a neighbor and friend. Permenter remembered his final moments with Johnson. “I worked with Grady for a number of years, most of all I was a neighbor of Grady I lived right beside him, and he was a wonderful person, he’s family. It so happened that yesterday about two hours before he passed away I got to visit with him, and I reminisced, I don’t know whether he could hear me, but we reminisced and talked. It’s a great loss for Pinehurst,” Permenter related.
Dan Mohon serves on the Pinehurst City Council currently and previously served as mayor of the City of Orange when Johnson held the same position in Pinehurst.
Mohon recalled, “If I remember right we were, I was mayor in Orange and he was mayor of Pinehurst at the same time. The last two times I saw him he still remembered, once at the bank and once in front of his house, he would remember to call me mayor he always had that respect. Of course I addressed him that way from the time he served. A great loss for our area, but a good Christian man and he’ll be missed.” Mohon gave thanks for Grady Johnson during the invocation to start the city council meeting.
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