Mattie Lee Johnson

Published 10:36 am Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Mattie Lee Johnson, a Vicksburg resident, passed away Monday, Jan. 27, in Merit Health River Region Medical Center following a lengthy illness. She was 79. She worked at Shady Lawn Nursing Home and was of the Baptist faith.

She was preceded in death by her parents, J.C. and Frances Johnson; her brothers, Ernest Johnson and Willie Joe Johnson; and her sisters, Linda Faye Brown, Helen L. Thompson, and Pearline Caldwell.

She is survived by her sons, Nathaniel Johnson of Alabama and Willie Johnson Jr. of Vicksburg; her daughter, Kimberly Johnson of Vicksburg; nine grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and others.

Funeral services are to be held Saturday, Feb. 8, in the chapel of W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Johnnie L. Williams officiating. Interment shall follow in the Cedar Hill Cemetery.