Love for Connie: 'Villagers' bid cancer crusader farewell at public memorial

By Miki Perkins
Updated September 23 2017 - 9:18pm, first published 9:14pm
MELBOURNE,AUSTRALIA 23 SEPTEMBER 2017: Photo of people lining-up to enter Connie Johnson memorial at St Paul's cathedral in Melbourne on Saturday 23 September 2017..Photo Luis Enrique Ascui
MELBOURNE,AUSTRALIA 23 SEPTEMBER 2017: Photo of people lining-up to enter Connie Johnson memorial at St Paul's cathedral in Melbourne on Saturday 23 September 2017..Photo Luis Enrique Ascui
MELBOURNE,AUSTRALIA 23 SEPTEMBER 2017: Samuel Johnson brother of Connie Johnson' is greeted during her memorial at St Paul's cathedral in Melbourne on Saturday 23 September 2017..Photo Luis Enrique Ascui
MELBOURNE,AUSTRALIA 23 SEPTEMBER 2017: Samuel Johnson brother of Connie Johnson' is greeted during her memorial at St Paul's cathedral in Melbourne on Saturday 23 September 2017..Photo Luis Enrique Ascui
MELBOURNE,AUSTRALIA 23 SEPTEMBER 2017: Samuel Johnson brother of Connie Johnson' is greeted during her memorial at St Paul's cathedral in Melbourne on Saturday 23 September 2017..Photo Luis Enrique Ascui
MELBOURNE,AUSTRALIA 23 SEPTEMBER 2017: Samuel Johnson brother of Connie Johnson' is greeted during her memorial at St Paul's cathedral in Melbourne on Saturday 23 September 2017..Photo Luis Enrique Ascui
MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA , 23 SEPTEMBER 2017: Samuel Johnson brother of Connie Johnson  gives a press conference while accompanied by family and friends at Fed Square on Saturday 23 September 2017. Photo luis enrique Ascui   PHOTO Luis Ascui
MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA , 23 SEPTEMBER 2017: Samuel Johnson brother of Connie Johnson gives a press conference while accompanied by family and friends at Fed Square on Saturday 23 September 2017. Photo luis enrique Ascui PHOTO Luis Ascui
MELBOURNE,AUSTRALIA 23 SEPTEMBER 2017: Connie Johnson's husband , Michael Johnson, addresses the audience during her memorial at St Paul's cathedral in Melbourne on Saturday 23 September 2017..Photo Luis Enrique Ascui
MELBOURNE,AUSTRALIA 23 SEPTEMBER 2017: Connie Johnson's husband , Michael Johnson, addresses the audience during her memorial at St Paul's cathedral in Melbourne on Saturday 23 September 2017..Photo Luis Enrique Ascui

For almost half of the 18 years that Connie Johnson's husband Michael knew her, she had cancer.

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