JOHNNIE MAE ANDERSON

LILBOURN -- Johnnie Mae Anderson, 49, of Lilbourn died Saturday, March 1, 1997, at her home.

She as born Feb. 16, 1948, in Hughes, Ark., the daughter of James Blain and Luddie Guest Anderson. They preceded her in death.

She had lived in Missouri for more than 46 years. She was a member of the Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church in Lilbourn.

She is survived by four sons, John Timothy Anderson of Elkhart, Ind., Isaac Lee Anderson of Parma, Toney Anderson of Cincinnati, Ohio, and James Lee Anderson of Lilbourn; four daughters, Rutha Nell Stanford and Kimberly Arnita Anderson of Lilbourn, Tonette A. Brown of Fort Wayne, Ind., Antoinette Anderson of Fort Jackson, S.C.; three sisters, Joanna Anderson of Grand Rapids, Mich., Gloria Mae Anderson fo Rebecca Ann Anderson of Kalamazoo, Mich.; five brothers, Freddie McKnight of Elkhart, Ind., Robert McKnight and James Edward Anderson of Grand Rapids, Mich., James Blain Anderson of Ypsilanti, Mich., Solomon Lee Anderson of Kalamazoo, Mich.; a special friend, James Lee Tipler of Lilbourn; and 15 grandchildren.

Friends may call from noon until the funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church in Lilbourn. The Rev. Johnny McWilliams will officiate.

Interment will follow in the Simmmons Park Cemetery at Catron.

Williams-Farr & Purnell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.