GORHAM – James F. Johnston Jr. of Gorham, died on Feb. 26, at a Gorham nursing facility.

He was born in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 8, 1926, a son of James F. Johnston Sr. and Helene Remington Johnston. He was a graduate of Christ Episcopal Boy’s School in Asheville, N.C. He received an appointment to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and attended Georgia Tech, obtaining degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering.

He worked for Bethlehem Steel in Massachusetts where he met Betty Jardine, and they married in St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Cohasset, Mass. They would have celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary on March 31. He later worked for General Electric, and he and his wife raised four children. After 20 years, he purchased a small engineering consulting firm in Auburn, from which he retired in 1993 to Cape Cod.

He loved walking his dogs, going to the beach and the golf courses, as well as reading. He was active in the I.E.E.E. and the Episcopal Church, from which he served on the finance and building committees and the vestry. James was a member of the Sons of Cincinnati.

In addition to his wife, survivors include his children, James F. Johnston III, and his wife, Betsy, Harold Jardine Johnston, and Judith Remington Johnston and her husband, Andrew Arsenault; grandchildren, Bryant James Trombly, Kathleen Johnston Trombly, Liza Jardine Johnston and Emma Noel Johnston; and one brother, Remington Johnston and his wife, Catherine, of St. Simons Island, Ga.

A daughter, Nancy Marion Johnston, predeceased him.