Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Mera J. Rhinehart

SHREVEPORT, LA -- A memorial service for Mera Johnson Rhinehart will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 30th at Grace Community United Methodist Church. Rev. Sione Tu'uta will officiate at the service. The family will receive guests from 1:00-1:45 at the church immediately preceding the service.

Mera was born on May 19, 1918 in Forest Hill, Louisiana to George Martin Johnson, Sr. and Gertrude Dunn Johnson. She graduated from Natchez Charity Hospital Nursing Program and Northwestern State University with a B.S. in Nursing. She worked in hospital and industrial nursing until her retirement in 1980. She returned to the loving arms of God at 5:30 a.m. December 25.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.M. Johnson, Sr., two brothers and three sisters.

She is survived by two daughters: Sandra Sue Sharp and her husband Dennis and Paula Kathleen Lewis and her husband Eric: grandchildren Sheila Lester, Shari Seling, Tiffany Brazelton, Megan Streetman, their husbands, seven great-grandchildren, as well as one brother and four sisters.

With deep gratitude and appreciation to Dr. Robert Massengill.

Aulds Funeral Home
(318) 797-8124