JOHNS, Elsie Mae Smith 30 Oct 1907 20 Oct 1989, (w/o Claude Elmer Johns; (d/o Charlie and Lizzie Childress Smith)
Obituary:
Mrs. Elsie Mae Johns, 81, of Goodspring, died Friday, Oct. 20, 1989, at Pulaski Health Care Center. Funeral services were held Sunday, Oct. 22, at Carr and
Erwin Chapel with Bernard Konig officiating. Burial was in Shores Cemetery.
A native of Tennessee, Mrs. Johns was the daughter of the late Charlie and Lizzie Childress Smith and was preceded in death by one son, Junior Johns. She was
a member of Shores Church of Christ. Survivors include three sons, James A., Donald and Tommie Johns, all of Pulaski; seven daughters, Brenda Johns and
Opal Garner, both of Pulaski, Carolyn Hawkins, Sybil Powell, Glenda Davidson and Joyce Klotwog, all of Nashville, Esther Cook of Knoxville; four brothers,
Cecil Smith of Oklahoma, Archie, Gifford and Solomon Smith, all of Pulaski; four sisters, Jane Hunt and Polly Thompson, both of Oklahoma, Kathlene Shelton
and Sarah Kerchiegh, both of Oregon; 20 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Sources are obviously Giles County Tennessee Cemeteries by the Genealogical Society 1986, Newspaper abstracts of Giles County Tennessee 1840 - 1899. Graveyard research by Wayne Austin. Census Records of 1850-1900. Sent in by Sue Davis years ago
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