Career
His warm public personality led him to be known as Jói í Bónus. Jóhannes"s parents were Jón Elías Eyjólfsson, a store manager at the Sláturfélag Suðurlands in Reykjavík (1916-2001) and Kristín Fanney Jóhannesdóttir, a housewife and also an employee of the Sláturfélags Suðurlands (1918-2012). Jóhannes had a sister, Ester (since 1947), who married Einar Vilhjálmsson (since 1947).
Jóhannes married Ása Karen Ásgeirsdóttir (since 1942), who also worked at the Sláturfélag.
They had two children: Kristín (since 1963) and Jón Ásgeir (since 1968). Jóhannes began working at a young age for his father in the food section of the Sláturfélag Suðurlands, later becoming the shop manager there for two decades.
He had studied printing, but never worked in this profession. He "was not part of the Reykjavik elite, having no prime minister in his bloodline, no link to one of the well-cushioned Octopus families.
He had trained in a slaughterhouse and was a grocer in a supermarket chain".
