Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
5:27 pm Friday, November 4, 2011

Odelle P. Johnson

Odelle P. Johnson

November 3, 2011

Odelle Patterson Johnson, 87, died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, at Russellville Health Care.

She was a member of Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church and Franklin County Education Retirees Association. She retired as lunchroom manager of Littleville School in Colbert County.

The funeral service will be Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011, 2 p.m. at Pinkard Funeral Home, Russellville, with Rev. Tommy Heaps and Rev. Bo Lloyd officiating.  Burial will follow in Colbert Memorial Gardens, Tuscumbia.  The family will receive friends prior to the service from 12-2 p.m. at the funeral home.

She is survived by daughters, Maxine Crump and husband, Mike, of Marietta, Ga., Louise Hester and husband, Jim, of Russellville; grandsons, Eric Hester and wife, Beyonka, of Eupora, Miss., Whit Crump and wife, Jessica, of Seattle, Wash.; great-grandsons, Charlie and Ian Crump, of Seattle, Wash., Max Lovelace, of Eupora, Miss.

She was preceded in death by her husband, L. D. Johnson, Jr.; parents, Ershel and Sibrina Patterson; brothers, Noonan, Charlie Gaines, Billy and Bobby Patterson; sister, Opal Sewell.

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