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Mrs. Johnston

Mrs. Azzie Lee Barnes Johnson, 80, 7 South Hughes St. died Tuesday morning at the residence following a six-month illness.
She was born in Bartow County Feb. 11, 1897, daughter of the late Henry and Frances Adams Barnes. She had resided most of her life in Floyd County and was a member of West Rome Baptist Church and the TEL Sunday School class. Prior to her retirement she was employed with Harper Manufacturing Co. Her husband Clinton A. Johnston, died in 1966.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Glenn Eddy, Towanda, Penn., Mrs. Turner Youngblood, Frances Johnston and Mrs. Lindsey Rush, Rome and Mrs. Charles Duke, Douglasville; one son Fred Raymond Johnston, Rome, eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren andt wo nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday in Talley Brothers Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Russell Head officiating.
Interment will be in Connasena Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Randy Robinson, Red Byrd, Tom Strickland, Otis Parker, Maurice Newman, Bill Hall, Lamar Ross and Lawrence Wilkins.<
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home. At other times they will be at the residence.

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