Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
3:39 pm Monday, June 2, 2014

Johnnie Horton Seay

Johnnie Horton Seay

May 29, 2014

Johnnie Horton Seay, 89, of Russellville, passed away Thursday, May 29, 2014, at Huntsville Hospital.

Mrs. Seay was a lifelong resident of Franklin County and a member of Southside Baptist Church.  She was a homemaker and her favorite things were cooking and gardening.

The funeral service was Sunday, June 1, 2014, at Pinkard Funeral Home, Russellville, with burial in Franklin Memory Gardens.  Richard Parker Officiated the service.  The family received friends at the funeral home on Sunday.

Survivors include sons, Lance Seay and Bob Seay, both of Russellville; grandchildren, Ann Seay, Susan Seay, both of Florence, Bradley Seay, Decatur and, Kerby Seay Smith and husband, Shannon, Birmingham; great-grandchild, Mary-Hadley Smith; several nieces and nephews; special niece, Mary Steele Winchester.

Pallbearers were Ronnie Hovater, Tommy Baker, Jimmy James, Bradley Seay, Shannon Smith, and Jimmy Montgomery.

Honorary bearers were Al Horton, Bill Counts and Dan Counts.

She was preceded in death by husband, Houston Seay; parents, John and Cleo Horton; brothers and sisters, Mary Lou Steele, Mattie Earp, Otho James, Fernando Horton and Wesley Horton; daughter-in-law, Scarlet Seay.

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