Marjorie Trout Johnson

Marjorie Emma Trout was born on Christmas Day in 1923. She was raised on a rural farm in Sharon, Tennessee. She referred to herself when she was a girl as a tomboy- loving nature, the out of doors, climbing trees. She excelled in her studies and graduated Salutatorian of her high school class.

Marjorie went to Chicago, Illinois, to seek employment after she graduated from high school. She found clerical and manufacturing work there, and made enough to support herself and send money back home. She also found a handsome young man, Bud Johnson, who had grown up just a few miles from her in Tennessee. Marjorie and Bud Johnson were married in 1944 in a civil ceremony in Chicago.

The Johnsons moved back home to Bud’s family farm to help out and raise their 2 children, Judy and Mark. A few years later, Marge and Bud and their family moved to Texas. They landed in De Soto, south of Dallas. There they completed their family with 2 more children, Danny and Libby.

Marjorie was a wonderful homemaker. She excelled at every endeavor: from cooking, to decorating, to sewing, to refinishing furniture to numerous crafts. Her artistic talents were expressed everywhere in her home. It was in her 40’s that Marjorie met her teacher and mentor Lucille Martin who introduced her to what became her passion- painting.

When the family moved to Austin in 1969, Marjorie chose a home surrounded by beautiful old oak trees. She spent the next 30 years exploring the beauty of the Texas Hill Country and capturing it in her many original oil paintings. Marjorie so enjoyed many close and dear friendships centered around a shared love of art.

On Saturday, July 7, 2012 Marjorie passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her beloved children, grandchildren and great grandchildren- and her beautiful oak trees.

She was preceded in death by her parents, William Homer Trout and Florence Edwards Trout, her sisters Maurine McGeehee and Faye Peterman, and in 2005, her husband Tillman James (Bud) Johnson, Jr. to whom she was married for 61years.

She is survived by a brother Wayne Trout and sister Robbie Jean Sullivan. She is also survived by her four children: Judy (Bredthauer), Gary Mark, Danny, and Libby (Pulley), her daughter- in- law Brenda Johnson (wife of Danny), and sons-in–law Don Bredthauer and Jerry Pulley. She leaves behind 7 grandchildren: Kris, Brooke, Breanna, Britnee, Bridgette, Daniel and Brendan and 14 great grandchildren, her “great-grands”, all who enjoyed a sweet and loving relationship with their granny and memaw.

The family will receive friends from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M., Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at Cook-Walden/Forest Oaks Funeral Home. Funeral Services will be at 10:00 A.M., Wednesday, July 11, 2012 in the Chapel of Cook-Walden/Forest Oaks Funeral Home with Dr. Ken Baldwin officiating. Interment will follow at Cook-Walden/Forest Oaks Memorial Park.