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Amarillo Globe News 15 Jul 1998

Emily Potts Johnston

FLOYDADA - Emily Potts Johnston, 82, died Saturday, July 11, 1998.

Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the First United Methodist 
Church with the Rev. Wendell Horn, pastor, officiating. Arrangements are 
by Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home of Floydada.

Mrs. Johnston was born in Durant, Okla. She graduated from Lubbock High 
School. She received a bachelor's degree in education from Texas Tech in 
1936. In 1956, she received a master's in education from Texas Tech.

Beginning in 1956, Mrs. Johnston taught second grade. She later served as 
a high school counselor and sponsor for the Future Teachers Association. 
In 1978, she retired from Floydada Independent School District.

Mrs. Johnston was a member of American Association of University Women, 
Daughters of the American Revolution, Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority, Texas 
State Teachers Association, National Educators Association, Floyd County 
Historical Society and West Texas Museum Association.

She was also active in Spirit of Sharing. She was a member of First United 
Methodist Church.

She married Jim Potts in 1936 at Lubbock. They moved to Floydada in 1946. 
Mr. Potts died in 1956. In 1974 she married Ralph Johnston in Lubbock. Mr. 
Johnston died in 1986. She also was preceded in death by a son, Ralph 
Johnston Jr., in 1986, and by a daughter, Grace Anne Heacock in 1990.

Survivors include four sons, Frank Potts of Floydada, Bill Potts of 
Medina, Wash., Lon Johnston of Austin and George Johnston of Farmington, 
N.M.; one daughter, Becky Hamilton of Seminole; 18 grandchildren; and 12 
greatgrandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to Alzheimer's Association, 919 N. 
Michigan, Suite 100, Chicago, Ill. 60611-1676 or to DNA Alzheimer's 
Research, Texas Tech University HSC, Dept. of Neurology, 3601 4th St., 
Lubbock, Texas 79430.
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