Palestine High School Alumni Association

03 / 25 / 1968  –  10 / 11 / 1983

Funeral services for Rodney Johnson, 15, of Route 2, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church with the Revs. Lynn Parker, Roger Marsh, Darwin Scott, Farrell Russell and Irvin Anthony officiating. Burial will be Tool Cemetery in Tool under the direction of Hassell & Foster Funeral Home. Rodney died at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday in a Dallas hospital after an illness.

He was born March 25, 1968, in Athens, a son of Bo Johnson and Jane Winston Brumley. He was a sophomore at Palestine High School and a member of First Baptist Church and Young Life.

Survivors include his parents, Bo Johnson of Trinidad and Jane and Joel Brumley of Palestine; grandmothers, Mrs. Marcelle Winston and Mrs. Grady Johnson, both of Trinidad, and Mrs. Lorena Brumley of Palestine; a sister, Angie Slate of Palestine, a stepbrother, Joe Brumley of Whitehouse, and two stepsisters, Teresa Mirksy of Tyler and Diana Foster of Lufkin.

The family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the Hematology Clinic, Children’s Medical Center in Dallas.

Pallbearers will be Shane Morrison, Kirk Brumley, Craig Webb, Ricky Webb, Dean Cole, Tony Pinson, Randy Wages, T.D. Williams, Steven Loth, Gerald Kothman, Kevin Dodson, Paul Rohne, Glenn Guy and Paul Griffey. All students of Palestine High School have been designated honorary pallbearers.

Source: Palestine Herald-Press 10-12-1983