Georgia Burns Johnson

Georgia Burns Johnson, 92, passed away on Thursday February 4, 2010 at Morningside Assisted Living in Columbus, Georgia.Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Monday February 8, 2010 at First Baptist Church, Porter Chapel. Dr. Jimmy Elder will officiate. A private internment will follow at the Norcross Cemetery in Norcross, Georgia. The family will receive friends from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Sunday February 7th at the funeral home.Georgia Burns Johnson was born on January 28, 1918 in Eufaula, Alabama to the late James Henry Burns and Katie Folsom Burns. The family moved to Jacksonville, Florida where Georgia attended grammar school, high school and business school. Upon graduation form business school, Georgia moved to Atlanta, Georgia to work for Traveler’s Insurance Company. In Atlanta, she met and married Hudson Wingo Johnson, of Norcross, Georgia on January 29, 1949. The family relocated to Columbus, Georgia in 1963. Georgia was a homemaker and a faithful member of The First Baptist Church for forty-seven years. She was a member of the Elaine Hammond Sunday School Class, Young at Heart, Senior Choir and worked in the Church Nursery into her late eighties. She will be remembered for her sweet spirit, always singing and an abiding love of family and children.She is preceded in death by her husband, Hudson Wingo Johnson and three sisters, Nell Donahue, Lucy Respess and Mary Louise Cromer. She is survived by her three daughters, Amy Willis (Jon) of Columbus, Ann Robinson (Rusty) of Seale, Alabama and Beth Johnson of Columbus; five grandchildren, Trace’ Copeland (Dallis) of Columbus, Bo Willis (Ashley) of Augusta, Georgia, Lindsey Barker (Jimmy) of Cataula, Georgia, Martha Robinson of Seale, Alabama and Amy Robinson of Columbus; seven great-grandchildren, Evans Copeland, Sarah Copeland, Caleb Barker, Dayton Willis, Avery Fields, Carsyn Barker, Kameron Waters, several nieces and nephews.The family wishes to express their heart-felt thanks to the staff of Morningside Assisted Living and her care-givers from Columbus Hospice for allowing Grandmother Georgia’s last two years to be filled dignity, love and compassion.