On February 25, 1920, in Marland, Oklahoma, a baby girl was born to Amos and Stella [Epperson] Brown. They lovingly named her Ella Mae. Ella was the second of thirteen children. She was raised in Marland and the family later moved to Wetumka, Oklahoma.


In 1943, she met and married Alonzo Loggins and from this union, four children were born. The marriage was later dissolved. She and her family then moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1947, where she met and married Jeff Johns, Sr. From this union, seven children were born.


Ella Mae joined Macedonia Baptist Church, under the leadership of Pastor Tommy McFrazier. She later moved her membership to Greater Shiloh Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Lee D. Moore, where she remained faithful until her health began to fail. Ella was a faithful member of the Junior Women and Senior Women Mission Cricle and a faithful member of the Usher Board.


She was very active in the church with her children and made sure that her children were just as active in the church as she was. She was dedicated to being a mother and grandmother. She worked outside the home, caring for other people and never met a stranger. She took pride in her favorite hobby, growing plants and doing yard work.


After eighty-nine beautiful years, Ella Mae Johns, with her loving family near her side, "dozed into Eternity" on Thursday morning, January 21, 2010 from her home in Muskogee. Waiting on her at the Gates of Heaven; her husband, Jeff Johns, Sr., three daughters, Lucy, Margie and Cathleen; two sons, Earl Loggins and Jeff Johns, Jr.; her mother and father, Amos and Stella Brown; six brothers, Amos, Jr., Lonnie, Harvey, Leslie, Will and Clyde Brown; three sisters, Vernice, Vinnie and Lorene; two grandchildren, Brian Vann and Kevin Russell; two great-grandchildren, Asharie Lyday and Louise Harris.


Those remaining to cherish her memory; three sons, Kenneth, David and Jackie Johns; three daughters, Shirley Russell, Darlene [Rudolph] and Ruby Johns, and a grandchild that she loved and raised as her own, Stacy Johns; a brother, Howard [Gladys]; two sisters, Almarie Jamerson and Essie Dunn; twenty-one grandchildren; five sisters-in-law, Velma Brown, Lucille Brown, Helen Brown, Geraldine Allen and Elrena Grant; a host of great-grandchildren; and a caravan of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends that will greatly miss her presence.

The Sacred Farewell will commence on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 10:00 A.M. in the Greater Rayfield Baptist Church. Rev. Leroy Walker, Sr., the gracious host Pastor and Rev. Vanzelen G. Brown, Sr., Pastor of Greater Shiloh Missionary Bapstist Church, Officiating.

The Christian committal will follow in Booker T. Washington Cemetery in Muskogee.

You may visit Mrs. Johns, as she slumbers at the funeral home on Friday from 10 AM to 6 PM. You may also visit her at the Church, prior the the service, only. The casket will not be opened at the end of the service.