Ava Mae McGowan Johnson

Ava Mae McGowen Johnson was born March 6, 1936, on the Campbell Ranch in Motley County, Texas to Avo West McGowen and A.M. Mitt McGowen. 

Ava graduated Magna Cum Laude and valedictorian from Floyd New Mexico High School. She married Jr and they farmed in Floyd County, New Mexico. She fed the hands every day and worked hard. They moved to Lufkin, Texas in 1964 and soon thereafter she was office manager for TGT Construction which later become Thomas and Thompson construction. She was meticulous in her work and ran a really tight ship. She was a member of LifePoint Church, and through all her adult life she taught Sunday School classes at the churches she belonged to. 

She is survived by her husband of 70 years, J.L. Johnson (Junior), and her sons, Andy Mitton Johnson and wife, Susan; children Cory Milton Johnson, wife, Ketty, and sons, Deaton and Parker; Angi Tindall; friend, Wes Raines; her children, Jacob Glenn Tindall and wife, Chyian; Drew Tinda, Lt U.S. Marines in Twenty-Nine Palms, California; Jessica Nolan and husband, Roy, and their children, Daniel Espinoza, Lilly Nolan and Olivia Nolan; Son Terry Neil Johnson and wife, Manonne, and their children, Samantha Johnson, Chance Johnson and wife, Shelby, and their children, Jack, Jordan, Judd and Seth Johnson. She is preceded in death by her sister, Vernell Reed; brother-in-law, Charles Basham; a grandson, Jacob Tyler Johnson; and a great-grandson, Luis Espinoza. She is survived by a sister, Mary Ebah Basham and children; brother in taw, Weldon Reed and children, brother A.M. Butch McGowen and wife, Sue, and their children. Survived by countless nephews, nieces, cousins, and friends by the bushel.