Obituary of Alice Pearl Reed-Johnson

Services for Alice Pearl Reed-Johnson, 90, Tyler, will be at 11:00 am, Saturday, February 8, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home Chapel, Overton with Reverend Bruce Wike officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Overton. Mrs. Johnson died Thursday, February 6, 2014 in a Tyler nursing home. She was born May 28, 1923 in Avenger, to the late Walter and Annie W. Moore Vestal. Prior to moving to Tyler, Mrs. Johnson had been a longtime resident of Kilgore and retired from TG&Y, where she was a sales clerk and she was a member of the Kilgore First Assembly of God Church. Besides her parents, Mrs. Johnson was preceded in death by two husbands, M.E. ‘Doc’ Reed and Richard Johnson, two sons, James Reed and Gene Reed, and several brothers and sisters. Survivors include four grandchildren and their spouses, Lynn and Alan Scott, Lavon, Jeanie and Lance Brown, Bullard, Dianna and Lee Smith, Chandler, and Bud and Samantha Reed, Whitehouse; eight great grandchildren, six great great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Lee Smith, Lane Smith, Lyle Clakley, James Brown, Alan Scott, and Paden Scott.