LaSalle University and the University of Pennsylvania. He continued swimming every day until the age of ninety-four, when his health would no longer allow him to continue. Family and final years Macionis lived with his wife of 69 years, May Johnston, in Charlottesville, Virginia until his death at age 95. They had two children, John Johnston Macionis and Robert Gordon Macionis. References External links John Macionis – Olympic athlete profile at Sports-Reference.com 1916 births 2012 deaths American male freestyle swimmers Olympic silver medalists for the United States in swimming Swimmers from Philadelphia Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Yale Bulldogs men's swimmers Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics United States Coast Guard personnel of World War II United States Coast Guard officers