Obit of Johnson, Patricia M. - Comanche County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips  <okarchives@comcast.net>    16 Dec 2007
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::Greenlawn Memory Lawn Cemetery--Phoenix AZ

Johnson, Patricia M.

Patricia M Johnson - Born August 24th, 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma to 
Lee Houston and Minnie Lee Thompson. The Thompson family moved to 
Phoenix when Pat was three years old. She graduated from West High 
School in Phoenix in 1951 and returned to Oklahoma to live with her 
grandmother Georgia Hendershot. In Lawton, she took a job with the 
local telephone co. One year later she returned to Phoenix and 
started working for Mountain States Telephone, which eventually led 
to a career with AT&T. In 1954, she met Roy L. Johnson, a USAF flight 
engineer stationed at Luke AFB. They were married in Wickenburg, AZ. 
on August 10th, 1956. This was the beginning of a marriage and 
partnership which lasted for over 51 wonderful years. In 1957, she 
had the 1st of three children, David, followed by Kevin in 1964 and 
finally in 1966 a red-hair, green eyed girl, Karen, was born, 
completing this family. Shortly thereafter she returned to work for 
Western Electric at their cable plant. After losing Karen to leukemia 
in 1980, Pat started to get involved with various charities and 
functions including The March of Dimes, the Cable Leros club of the 
Telephone Pioneers, the Ice Skating Club of Phx, and The Special 
Olympics. Pat was a very loving and caring person who was known as 
Mrs J to all the kids she came into contact with. After retiring from 
AT&T in 1989 she went on to work for Az Game and Fish. On September 
2, 2007, at the age of 74, and after a seven year fight with 
Alzhiemers, she passed peacefully away at her home in 
Eldorado,Illinois. She was preceeded in death by her parents, brother 
James, and daughter Karen. She is survived by her husband Roy, sons 
David and Kevin, daughter in law Maryann, brother Lee and his wife 
Mary Thompson of Snowflake, brother John and his wife Millie Thompson 
of Sacramento Ca., sister Dorothy and her husband Robert Glenn of 
Phx., sister Georgia Sue and her husband Leon Coudriet of 
Jacksonville, N.C. and all the nieces, nephews and extended family. 
Services are to be held at Greenwood Memory Lawn on Saturday, 
November 17th, 2007 a 11:00 AM. She will be missed by all.

Published in The Arizona Republic on 11/14/2007.
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