Emma Lee Johnson

91 year old Emma Lee Johnson of Smithville died Thursday at DeKalb Community Hospital. She was a Baptist and a retired Smithville shirt factory worker. The funeral will be Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at the Chapel of Love-Cantrell Funeral Home. Craig Mahler will officiate and burial will be in Whorton Springs Cemetery. Visitation will be Friday from 11:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. until the service at 2:00 p.m. She was preceded in death by her parents, James Bernard and Clara Mae Young Taylor; her husband, Wilson Johnson; a son, Ray Johnson; two sisters, Elizabeth Sandlin and Maureen Parsley; and five brothers, Robert, Charlie, Manuel, Ben, and E.J. Taylor. Survivors include three daughters, Kathleen Mahler of Sparta, Dorothy and husband Alton Haggard of Smithville, Era and husband Harold Billings of Sparta. One son, Jerry Johnson of Smithville. One sister, Wilma Redmon of Smithville. Two brothers, Tommy and wife Geneva Taylor of Smithville and Aubrey and wife Polly Taylor of Smyrna. Fourteen grandchildren, thirty three great grandchildren, and sixteen great great grandchildren survive. Love-Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.