Extracted from the Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, NC)
Friday, April 15, 1977

Lessie Johnson

Mrs. Lessie Lee Johnson of Route 2, Benson died Thursday afternoon at her home. She was 94 years of age.

She was born in Johnston County, a daughter of the late Monroe and Mary Lee. She was the widow of L. A. Johnson.

Mrs. Johnson was a member of Hickory Grove Primitive Baptist Church.

The funeral was scheduled for 3 o'clock Friday afternoon in the chapel of Rose Funeral Home in Benson with Elder W. D. Godwin and the Rev. Leroy Whit officiating and burial following in the Johnson Family Cemetery on Foute 2, Benson.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Alice Lee of Four Oaks, Mrs. Inez Best of Dudley, Mrs. Georgia Hobbs of Portland, Md., and Mrs. Ella Richards of Goldsboro; two sons, Samuel Johnson of Benson and Henry Monroe Johnson of Chesapeake, Va.; 22 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.