Johnston, Edie

  • Sunday, December 4, 2005

Edie Johnston, 83, of Chattanooga, died Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005, in a local health care facility.

She was a dedicated mother and grandmother and was preceded in death by her husband, Bennie "Johnny" Johnston; son, Mark Johnston; three brothers, Otis Baggett, Robert C. Baggett and Claude Baggett; two sisters, Ruby Turner and Mary Evelyn Brown.

She is survived by her two daughters, Ann Martin and Connie Humphrey, both of Soddy-Daisy; one son, Duke Johnston, of Knoxville; one sister, Semmie Ford Brown, of Chattanooga; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Coulter Chapel of Lane Funeral Home. Interment will be in Chattanooga National Cemetery.

Condolences may be sent to lane-coulterchapel.com.

The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. on Monday at the funeral home.

Arrangements are by the Coulter Chapel of Lane Funeral Home, 601 Ashland Terrace, 877-3524.

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