Sister of Jerry Belson and Gordon Belson .Aunt of Kristine Belson .Her widower, Charles Lohr, was Johnson's seventh husband.She frequently wore four hair curlers to work.She was a single mother working in a social-services office in Los Angeles, when her brother Jerry got her a job typing scripts for "The Odd Couple" (1970). Sometimes she would make changes in the lines, and her brother realized she had writing talent. He got her a job writing a spec script for "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970).