Thursday, May 27, 2021
Emily Elizabeth Batts Johnson, My Grandmother, was a Great Woman.
She sacrificed her happiness all her life to help others. She always cared for others, from starving herself in Tennessee to make sure my father Stanley Wayne Johnson was fed while my Grandaddy was at War, to allowing total strangers down on their luck to live in her house all the way to the end of her days. She spent her life teaching, feeding, caring, and sharing the Love of Jesus Christ to all she ever came in contact with. Many were lead to the Lord through her. Praise Jesus Christ!!
There are so many times that she wiped the tears from my eyes and loved me when the world was hard. She was good at creating distractions to help life be brighter. From fly fishing early in the summer mornings, to catching giant catfish, to dressing up and going shopping, she always knew how to cheer me up. Like me, there are many others she touched in Talladega and beyond this great state and even across our borders.
I am forever in awe of the wonderful person she was. Because of Emily Elizabeth Batts Johnson, I am the father and husband I am today. May she have the happiness that the Bible promised her that once again she see her one true love Leland Stanley Johnson, My Grandfather. I hope that they may embrace and never be separated again.
I thank all of you that have been a part of my family’s life.
God bless each and every one of you.
Christopher Nathan Johnson
