LILLIE JOHNSON

LAMAR- Services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Daniel Funeral Home for Lillie Johnson, 86, Lamar, who died Tuesday, March 21, 2017, surrounded by the love of her family at St. Luke's Nursing Center in Carthage. Burial was in Lake Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association or Bob Johnson Memorial Scholarship Fund, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences and memories may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include three sons, Fred Plain and wife Sally, Pittsburg, Kan. and Jim Kinney and wife Karen and David Johnson and wife Katie, Lamar; three daughters, Sheila Stevens and husband Gary, Lamar and Lori Walker and husband Joe and Lisa Reece, Joplin; two sisters, Bernice Workman and Ruby Dell Hamm, both of Decatur, Ill.; 21 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandson, many nephews and nieces and a large extended family.

She was preceded in death by six brothers, Harlan, Ross, Glen, Clyde, Howard and Ivan Plain; four sisters, twin babies Idabelle and Maybelle Plain, Eunice Quarles and Dorothy Combs; a grandson, Christopher Plain and a great-grandson, Kahl Kirk.

Mrs. Johnson was born Oct. 27, 1930, in El Dorado Springs, to Charles and Millie (Herring) Plain. She married Jewell McCall in 1956 and he died in an automobile accident in 1961. In 1965, she met and married the love of her life, Carl “Bob” Johnson and they shared 11 years before his passing in 1977.

Growing up with a strong work ethic and a “can-do” attitude, she had worked as a waitress at Brother Adam's Restaurant, worked alongside Jewell in the McCall Concrete Block Plant for several years, was a draftsman for Finley Engineering and cashiered for Jim & Charlie's Market and Steve's Coastal for many years.

At home, she shared the abundance of her huge vegetable garden with family and friends and the beauty of her flowers and petunia beds with the entire community. She was a self-taught musician and enjoyed playing the piano and organ. She was an excellent seamstress, sewing clothes for her girls, as well as wardrobes for their Barbie dolls. She was an animal-lover and many dogs and cats were fortunate enough to be called hers through the years. Her door was always open for fellowship of family and dear friends and countless lives were enriched by the time spent with her.