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Elvia Burnett Johnson.

Services for Elvia Burnett Johnson will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Burial will follow under the direction of W.H. Jefferson funeral Home.

Mrs. Johnson died Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2006, at Vicksburg Convalescent Home. She was 90.

A homemaker, Mrs. Johnson was a graduate of St. Mary’s Catholic High School. She was of the Baptist faith.

She was preceded in death by her parents, John Burnett Sr. and Lillie Burnett Chatman; her husband, Elmer Johnson Sr.; a son, Ernest Johnson; and two brothers, John Burnett Jr. and Andrew Burnett.

She is survived by a son, Elmer Johnson Jr. of Vicksburg; a daughter, Annie Marie Johnson Green of Vicksburg; one brother, Howard L. Burnett of San Diego, Calif.; three grandchildren, including Flora M. Johnson of Vicksburg whom she reared; eight great-grandchildren; and other relatives, including members of the Barnes and Burnett families of Vicksburg.