Graveside service for C.J. Johnson will be held Friday, July 8, 2016, at 10 a.m. at Moulton Memory Gardens with Pastor Stephen Benefield officiating and Lawrence Funeral Home directing. Visitation will follow in the fellowship hall of First United Methodist Church.
Mr. Johnson passed away July 6, 2016, at Lawrence Medical Center after a brief illness. He was born Jan. 10, 1920, in the Speake community to Isaac Johnson Jr. and Pauline Riggs Johnson. C.J. retired as maintenance superintendent at Monsanto Chemical Company in 1977. He was a lifelong Methodist and member of First United Methodist Church of Moulton. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Edith, the love of his life for 72 and one half years; two brothers, Isaac Johnson III and Paul Miller Johnson; and one sister, Martha McCarty Evans.
He is survived by his son, Mike Johnson (Virginia) of Moulton; sister, Joyce Dodd (Roy); three grandchildren, Alicia Nails (Jeremy), Decatur, Marlo Greene (Travis), Daniel Island, South Carolina and Brent Johnson (Julie), Moulton; and seven great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, please consider memorials to his favorite charity, St. Jude Hospital or the building fund of Moulton First United Methodist Church.
