Mary M. Johnson
Published 12:00 am Sunday, January 14, 2007
INDIANAPOLIS – Mary “Mae” Myrtle Butts Johnson, 67, of Indianapolis died Jan. 6, 2007, at an Indianapolis hospital.
The Bowling Green, Ky., native retired after 38 years with RCA. Throughout her blessed life, she gave back to her community by volunteering and helping many charitable organizations throughout the Indianapolis metropolitan area. She was an active member of Light of the World Christian Church in Indianapolis, where she was a Sunday school teacher, president of the Usher Board for 12 years and a deaconess for 10 years. She was very proud of attending High Street High School. She was loved by many and will be greatly missed. She was a daughter of the late Hubert Butts and Mary Lee Butts and was preceded in death by her beloved husband of more than 30 years, William Horace Johnson. She was also preceded in death by a wonderful sister, Elizabeth “Liz” Pernell; and a brother-in-law, Charles Pernell.
Funeral is at 11 a.m. EST Tuesday at Light of the World Christian Church in Indianapolis. Visitation is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. EST Monday at Willis Mortuary and is from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. EST Tuesday at the church.
Expressions of sympathy may take the form of lifting the family up in your prayers.
Survivors include two brothers, Michael Butts and his wife, Glendalyn, of Indianapolis and William “Willis” Butts of Shelbyville, Tenn.; eight sisters, Patsy Irving and her husband, Arthur, of Midwest City, Okla., Meatie McKinney and her husband, George, of Springhill, Tenn., and Rose Colton, WinoraDuffey, Betty Rounds, Mildred Butts, and Ulala Cross and her husband, Richard, all of Bowling Green, and Jackie Anderson and her husband, John, of Indianapolis; several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews and cousins; an uncle; two aunts; and several friends.
