Idella Thomas Johnson

Published 5:00 am Thursday, May 29, 2008

Services for Idella Thomas Johnson, of Brookhaven, will be heldat 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 31, at Norfield Bethel MissionaryBaptist Church in Bogue Chitto with burial in Bogue ChittoCemetery. R.E. Tyler Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from noon until 7 p.m. at the funeral home,with family present from 6 until 7 p.m.

Mrs. Johnson, 93, died May 26, 2008, at her residence. She wasborn in Lincoln County on March 1, 1915, to Ike Thomas and MatildaMiller Thomas.

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She was a homemaker. She was a member of Norfield M.B.Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, O.J.Johnson; two brothers; and three sisters.

Survivors are her sons, James Johnson, of Brookhaven, and RobertLee Thompson, of Bogue Chitto; her daughters, Beatrice McNulty, ofBogue Chitto, and Ruth Kees, of Brookhaven; and a host ofgrandchildren and great-grandchildren.