Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
3:27 pm Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Wilma Berry Johnson

Wilma Berry Johnson

January 22, 2013

Wilma Berry Johnson, 82, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, at her residence.

A native of Franklin County, she was retired from General Electric in Memphis, Tenn. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, Coldwater, Miss.

Services were Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Dallas Culver officiating. Burial was in Halltown Cemetery.

Survivors are one daughter, Pam Thomas and husband, Craig Thomas, San Rafael, Calif.; three step-daughters, Carol Webb and husband, Dave Webb, Myrtle, Miss., Linda Roberts and husband, J.W. Roberts, Coldwater, Miss., and Karen Johnson, Lake Cormorant, Miss.; two brothers, J.M. Berry and wife, Jean Berry, Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Charles Berry and wife, Sandra Berry; one sister, Kay Deaton and husband, Dean Deaton, Red Bay; four grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Aaron Landers and Robert S. Johnson, her parents, Sidney A. and Rena Weatherford Berry, a brother, Gene Weatherford Berry and one sister, Nina Hensley.

Pallbearers were Jimmy Berry, Jamie Berry, Johnnie Weatherford, Billy Joe Williams,

Terry Stanford and Don Berry.

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