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Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 30, 2005

Nina Catherine (Cannon) Johnson

Nina Catherine Cannon Johnson, 87, of Amarillo died Friday, Jan. 28, 
2005.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Martin
Road Chapel, 1505 Martin Road, with Walt Ellis and Glen Gammill, both pastors
of Forest Hill Missionary Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in
Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Johnson was born Oct. 24, 1917, in Fairfield to Elbert Americus 
Cannon and Mary Elizabeth Burns Cannon. She married Lloyd Johnson in Clovis, 
N.M., on Nov. 11, 1932. She worked many years at Doche Cleaners and retired
from Levi Strauss in 1982.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a daughter, Nina Helen Thomason; her
parents; two sisters, Evelyn Geneva Long and Grace Elizabeth Boone; a brother,
Hillman John Cannon; a grandson, Michael Ray Johnson; and two
great-granddaughters, Amber Leigh Underwood and Latosha Underwood.

Survivors include a son, Richard and wife, LaRue; a brother, Elbert Americus
Cannon Jr.; five grandchildren; four step grandchildren; 19
great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; as well as a host of 
nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.