A funeral service for Nellie Ruth Johnson, 84, will be held on May 8, of Emory, 2025, at 2:00 p.m., at Wilson Orwosky Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Smyrna Cemetery.
Mrs. Johnson died on May 4, 2025. She was born on March 3, 1941, to Cecil Jackson Pounds and Mary Ruth Pounds (Hall).
She married Roy Johnson on April 30, 1962, and they were married for sixty-one years until his death in 2023.
For over thirty years Mrs. Johnson dedicated herself to her career as a switchboard operator before moving on to work at Taylor Publishing. She was an accomplished accordion player and shared her talents within her church.
Mrs. Johnson is survived by her children, Mary Renea Thigpen and husband Danny, Roy Wayne Johnson and wife Raquel, and Teresa Kay Dunaway and husband Jason; grandchildren, Roderique Courson and Knealy, Kenneth Johnson and Courtney, Jacob Dunaway and Maddie, Brandon Thigpen, Dustin Thigpen, Mia Johnson, Leesa Privee and Kevin, and Jamie Dunaway; 12 great-grandchildren; brother, Kenneth Wayne Pounds; uncle, Doil Pounds; brother-in-law, Billy Lomax; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her husband; son, Kenneth David Johnson; granddaughter, Sarah Michelle Courson; and siblings, Verlene House, Joan Lomax and Anna Kathryn Pounds.
A visitation will be held at 1:00 p.m., prior to the service.