Johnnie Marie Jones Patterson

JOHNNIE MARIE JONES PATTERSON, a resident of Memphis with extended family members in Fayette County and Henderson County, Tennessee, died at 8:30 P.M. Sunday, March 2, 2008 at the Wesley Highland Manor in Memphis where she had been a resident for the past five years. She was 99 years of age and died following a brief illness.
Funeral services for Mrs. Patterson were conducted at 1 P.M. Wednesday at the Graveside with Dr. Hoyt Wilson of Lexington, TN, officiating. Interment was in the Unity Cemetery in the Middlefork Community near Lexington, TN. Arrangements were provided by Peebles Fayette County Funeral Home - Main Chapel of Somerville.
Mrs. Patterson was born April 4, 1909, in Lexington, Tennessee, the daughter of the late John Jones and the late Mary Ula Daniels Jones. Mrs. Patterson was educated in the public school system of the Lexington Community and was the wife of William Guy Patterson who preceded her in death thirty-six years ago.
Mrs. Patterson was employed by the Methodist Hospital Systems for many years before her retirement in 1971. She had been a resident of Memphis for over sixty years and was a devoted member of the Bellevue Baptist Church.
Mrs. Patterson is survived by her granddaughter, Pat Postans of Fairway, Kansas; 4 great- grandchildren, Amber Marquez, Kenny Raper, Brianna Weaks, Sam Postans and 1 great-great-granddaughter, McCala Raper.
Family and friends served as casketbearers and the family request that memorials be directed to the Bellevue Baptist Church, 2000 Appling Road, Cordova, TN 38016.