Johnnie Marie (Templeton) Whitworth

Services are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Monday, Oct. 19th at Bright-Holland Funeral Home with Rev. Doug Holt officiating. Burial will be made in Rockford Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the service.

Mrs. Whitworth, the daughter of Rufus A. Templeton & Mae Eula McFadden Templeton, was born Sept. 17, 1937, in Slabtown, Texas.

She attended Hazel Dell School and Delmar School. Johnnie worked a number of years at Northcut Quality Sewing in Roxton. She later worked in home healthcare retiring from Jordan Home Healthcare at the age of 74.

She was an avid seamstress and quilter. She always raised a beautiful garden from which she canned and preserved vegetables. Her ability to cook and prepare meals was second to none.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband, Billy R. Hatch and her last husband, William Whitworth, her son-in-law, Tim Mitchell, and all her siblings, Sterling Templeton, Bill Templeton, Virginia Crawford, Mary Alice Simmons, and Ruthie Parsons.

Survivors include two children, Billy Jack Hatch and Tonya Hatch Mitchell, a granddaughter, Morgan Mitchell-Moura & husband Brian, two great grandchildren, Isaac Mason and Gavin Mason and numerous nieces & nephews and a host of friends.

Casket bearers will be: Roger Simmons, Stanley Simmons, Terry Simmons, Eric Simmons, Dale Crenshaw, and Roger Boren. Honorary bearers will be: Jereel Parsons and Donald Ray Templeton.