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Extracted from The Winn Parish Enterprise News-American (Winnfield, LA)
Wednesday, November 6, 1985

James Walter Johns

Services for James Walter Johns were held at 2 p.m. Monday in the chapel of Southern Funeral Home with the Rev. Kenneth Tarver officiating. Burial was in New Hope Cemetery, Gaars Mill.

Johns, 77, of Winnfield, died at 11 a.m. Saturday in Humana Hospital, Winn Parish.

He was a carpenter and a member of the New Jerusalem Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by a son, William Ivy Johns.

Survivors include his wife, Maude Johns of Winnfield; four sons, Billy Johns of Jonesboro, Sammy Johns of Bossier City, and J. J. Johns and Kindell Johns of Winnfield; three daughters, Beth Wright of Hodge, Mary Fain of Shreveport, and Kathy McDonnell of Bossier City; two brothers, Wesley Johns of Jonesboro and Wyatt Johns of Dodson; two sisters, Pearlie Walker of Winnfield and Barbara Carpenter of Dodson; 23 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.