Date of birth: 19 Feb 1926
Date of death: 23 Sep 1978

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Burial Information

Section 02 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 100A-05
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

War/Campaign: WORLD WAR II

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Notes

Obituary
Services Held Monday For Wallace Johnson
Funeral services were held Monday, September 2[5] at 3 p.m. for Lexington’s Postmaster Wallace Rogers Johnson, Jr., at the First United Methodist Church with Rev. Leslie Nabors officiating. Burial was at Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Mr. Johnson, 52, a former rural mail carrier and postmaster since 1972, died Saturday at the Mississippi Baptist Hospital in Jackson after a six week’s battle with cancer.

He was a veteran of World War II and an active member of First United Methodist Church in Lexington.

Mr. Johnson is survived by his wife, Mrs. Yvette Ellis Johnson of Lexington; two sons, Hugh Richard (Bubber) Johnson of McComb and Wallace (Buster) Johnson, III of Jackson; two daughters, Jennifer M. Johnson and Neva Lynne Johnson of Lexington; his mother, Mrs. Neva H. Johnson of Lexington; one sister, Mrs. Irma Gibson of Fort Worth, Texas; and two grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Frank Hughes, Fred Powers, Mike Stark, Bob McLellan, Curtis Gibson and Doug Smith.

Honorary pallbearers were Clarence Minyard, Johnny Baughn and Sidney Henley.

The Holmes County Herald – Page 1
Lexington, MS
September 28, 1978

Family Relations of Wallace Rogers Johnson, Jr.

Parents:
Wallace Rogers Johnson, Sr.
Neva Hester Johnson

Siblings:
Erma Louise Johnson Gibson
Wallace Rogers Johnson, Jr.

Spouse:
Yvette Ellis Johnson

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