TylerPaper.com
Tyler, TX
Nov 1, 2008

Services for Vernon Wayne Johnson, age 56, of Bullard, will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, November 1, 2008, in the chapel of Stewart Family Funeral Home with Neil McClendon and James Palmer officiating.

 

Burial will follow at Bullard Cemetery in Bullard under the direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home.

 

 

Mr. Johnson passed away on Wednesday, October 29, 2008, at his home in Bullard. He was born on December 10, 1951, in Lufkin to Vernon and Georgia Johnson.

 

He attended Bethany College in Bethany, Oklahoma, and graduated in 1972 from Nazarene Church Seminary in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mr. Johnson was a certified Insurance Agent and worked for Sterling/AON Insurance Company as a salesman and then manager for five years. For four years, he was named Top Market Manager of Sterling Insurance and was a Round Table member for three consecutive years.

 

Mr. Johnson was a member of First Baptist Church in Neches and served as director of music.

 

Mr. Johnson was preceded in death by a brother, Dennis Ray Johnson. He is survived by a loving family including his wife, Toni Johnson of Bullard; his parents, Vernon and Georgia Johnson of Stuart, Virginia; a son, Jeffrey Wayne Johnson and wife Wendy of Pine Bluff, Arkansas; two daughters, Nicole Clark and husband Chant, Natalie Jones and husband Brad, both of Center; a stepdaughter, Tina Hardaway of Houston; two sisters, Branita (Pug) Beeson and husband Leon of Temple and Donna Kay Zabodyn and husband Jeff of Elon, North Carolina; a brother, Rodney Glen Johnson and wife Sherry of Burlington, North Carolina; sister-in-law, Robbie Johnson of Houston; grandchildren, Cayden Johnson, Cole Clark, Christian Clark, Brook Sadler, Britney Sadler, Whitney Harrod, Kennedie Smith, and Breanna Jones; and nephews, Lloyd Baldridge of Austin and Jeffery Zabodyn of Elon, North Carolina.

 

Pallbearers will be Jimmy Oliver, Jimmy Batchelor, Jerry Smitherton, Todd Thoene, John Lageman, J.D. Hart, and Dan Bridges. Honorary pallbearers will be the male employees of Sterling Insurance.
 

Visitation is scheduled from 5:30-8 p.m. on Friday, October 31, 2008, at Stewart Family Funeral Home, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway, in Tyler.

Memorials in honor of Wayne Johnson may be made to Charlie Pack Tadpole Foundation, 7111 Bosque Blvd., Suite 207, Waco, Texas, 76710.