November 10th, 2022, God decided he was bored and brought home some intellectual  entertainment.

   Helen Pearl ‘Red’ Johnson was born August 19th, 1929 in Detroit, Illinois to Stella Mae and Russell Wilkins. 

   She married Vernon Wendell ‘Buddy” Johnson on March 10th, 1952.  Helen was a Preschool Teacher, Sunday School Teacher and Homemaker. There wasn’t a child on earth that  she didn’t love.  She was grandma or mom to everyone she met. She touched many lives in 93 years.

She attended Locust Avenue Church of Christ and then the last 30 plus years at First Christian Church. One of her greatest joys was giving her Pastors a hard time. Ask Paster Bell.

   Helen is preceded in death by husband Bud Johnson, grandmother and grandfather Lennie and Levi Howell, mother Stella Mae and step father George Carter, father Russell Wilkins, brothers, George Lee, Harold, Bill, and Bob Carter, step-grandson Micheal Huffman.

   She is survived by daughters, Jocelyn Jane and her husband Randy Huffman, Susan and her husband Glenn Olson, grandson Kevin R. Johnson, 

great-grandsons, Kevin W.R., Anakin D. Johnson and Nolan Sok. step-granddaughters, Dayna ( Jose) Gonzales,  Amy 

( Jason) Oberst, brother Herschel P. and his wife Jennie Carter, her special nieces Rhonda , Stacy and nephew Ron.

   A loving thank You to those at Harvest Crossings who loved and cared for my mother the last two and a half years.

   Services will be held December 9th, at 2 p.m. at Valley Christian Church, Manteca, CA.

Manteca (Calif.) Bulletin

Wednesday, November 30, 2022