Irene Johnson
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at White-Ran-son Funeral Home, with the Rev. Dale True officiating. Burial will follow at Mount Manuel Cemetery near Union City.
Friends may call from 11 a.m. until the hour of services Saturday at the funeral home.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons, great-grandsons and grandsons-in-law.
The family requests that memorials be made to Obion County Hometown Walk of Hope or the Mount Manuel Cemetery Association, in care of Maxine Cash, 1512 Troy-Hickman Road, Troy, TN 38260.
She was born Aug. 21, 1914, in Obion County, daughter of the late Harry and Stella Mae (Ferguson) McQueen. She married Aval Johnson Feb. 17, 1930. He died April 10, 1984. She had been employed at the former Salant & Salant in Union City for 20 years and was a member of Union City Second Baptist Church.
She is survived by four daughters and two sons-in-law, Yvonne Jett, Betty and Wayne Barber, Janie Johnson and Jackie and Bobby Russell, all of Union City; eight grandchildren, Paulette Jett, Perry Jett, Philip Jett, Debbie Hepler, Melinda Cross, Brad Barber, Matt Russell and Megan Dame; 16 great-grandchildren; and 13 great-great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by two sons-in-law, Paul Jett and Tom Gill; her sister, Louise Farris; and her brother, J.C. McQueen.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.