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Margaret Sophia was born February 3, 1899, into a coal mining family in Willington, Durham, England. They immigrated to Canada in 1924. Margaret worked for four years as a nanny and cook at the First United Church in Vancouver. She married Eskil Kilian Johnson on September 3, 1928 at this church. The couple lived on a farm in Langley's Willoughby area for the rest of their lives, and had two children: Alice, their biological child, and Brian, adopted. Margaret knitted and sewed for the Red Cross in a youth group that called themselves the "Willoughby Willing War Workers" during the war, and she was made a life member of the Red Cross. She was active in the Willoughby United Church as CGIT leader, Sunday school superintendent, as a member of the church board, and was a life member of the Langley Prairie Women's Institute. She often took First Nations students into her home for a number of years who were completing their schooling. Margaret died on July 8, 1981 at the age of 82.

Lily Hope was the president of the Fort Langley Circle of the Red Cross Drive during WWI.