Laura Johnson

PARMA, Mo. -- Funeral for Laura Johnson of Parma will be held at 2 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Parma. The Rev. Tom McCanless will officiate. Burial will be Memorial Park Cemetery at Malden, Mo.

Johnson, 77, died Saturday, Nov. 3, 2001, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo.

She was born Dec. 12, 1923, at Parma, daughter of William and Roxie Ward Cravens. She and Vernon Johnson were married July 26, 1947.

Johnson lived in the Parma area 50 years, and was a program specialist with DAEOC in New Madrid, Mo. She was a member of Parma First Baptist Church and Eastern Star Carnation Chapter 141.

Survivors include her husband; a son, George Davis of Linden, Mich.; two sisters, Grace Shaw and Sylvia Gregg of Parma; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers, and four sisters.