Obituary

Funeral services for Edwin Lewis "Ed" Johnson, 69, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church in Hale Center with Dr. Carrol Green officiating. Burial will follow in Hale Center Cemetery by Abell Funeral Home of Hale Center. Mr. Johnson died Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, at his residence. He was born Aug. 26, 1940, in Hale County to Melvina and Adron Mervin Johnson. He married Carol Brewer on July 13, 1962, in Cotton Center. He was the maintenance engineer for Hi-Plains Hospital for 13 years. Since 1981 he owned and operated his own construction business, WEMCO, with his sons. Survivors include his wife, Carol Johnson of Hale Center; two sons, Wesley and wife Beverly Johnson of Cotton Center and Murvin and wife Pam Johnson of Hale Center; two daughters, Cheryl and husband Connie Bowman of Littlefield and Patricia Johnson of Hale Center; a sister, Janet Perkinson of Hale Center; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Two brothers, Murvin and James, are deceased.