Mary Johnson

John 14:2 – In my Father’s house, are many mansions:   if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you. Those we love must someday pass beyond our present sight, must leave us and the world we know without their radiant light.  But we know that like a candle, their lovely light will shine to brighten up another place more perfect, more divine.  In the realm of heaven, where the sun is so warm and bright, our loved ones live forevermore in God’s eternal light. Mary Lois Jonson was born March 1, 1936 in Montgomery, AL to the late Ollie Mae Moncrief and Alton Carter.  She was one of 3 children, 1 of which precedes her in death.  She departed this life on Saturday, June 11, 2011 in the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA.  At age 8, Lois moved to Detroit, MI with her family and lived there into her early adult life and this is where she met and married John Henry Johnson.  She united in holy matrimony to John of Longview, Texas on April 21, 1960 and they moved to Portland, OR where she lived until March of this year when she moved to Washington State to be closer to her children.  John Henry’s sunset was on December 4, 1997. She received Christ at an early age and was a member of Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church.  She was one of the original 64 members of Fellowship MBC holding multiple roles to support it.  When Lois moved to Washington she honored her church’s covenant direction:  We moreover engage that when we remove from this place we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other church, where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God’s Word,”  and joined the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Bremerton, WA. Lois worked both in the home and outside the home.  She and John Henry raised and nurtured a very loving family of 3 boys and 1 girl.  She was the 1st nurses aid at Emmanuel Hospital in Portland, OR leaving this post to work for Western Electric.  Western Electric through a series of business changes became Quest Communications and she retired with them in 1993 after approximately 21 years of service.  She leaves to cherish her memory 4 children – Marvin and wife, Angela of Rio Rancho, NM, Rodney Kevin and wife, Gotha of Port Orchard, WA, Ollie and husband, Marcus Bedell of Silverdale, WA and John Allen of Portland, OR a brother Melvin Moncrief and wife, Jeanette of Smith Creek, MI, a brother –in-law Alton Johnson and wife Christine of Portland, OR, a sister Doris Hymen of Chicago, Il.  Seven grandchildren:  Tramaine, Kevin, John Jr, Leilah, Maya, Jahmil and Jocelyn, two great grandchildren Isabella and Ava and a host of nieces, cousins and friends by whom she will be greatly missed.