Daisy F.Johnston

Daisy Johnston

Daisy Fay Johnston, 81, of Commerce passed away December 23, 2010 at Hunt Regional Medical Center.  Services will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel, with Joe Knight officiating.  Interment will follow at Rosemound Cemetery in Commerce.  Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 6:00 PM to 8 PM Monday.

Mrs. Johnston was born August 24, 1929 in Emblem to Thadys K. and Virgie M. Boren Miller.  On June 30, 1951, she married James Edward Johnston in Greenville.  She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church in Commerce.

Her survivors include her sons Michael Johnston and wife Karen of Wolfe City and Rickey Johnston and wife Kelly of Commerce; daughters Pamela Johnston of Lewisville and Cheryl Van Zandt of Commerce; grandchildren Chris Johnston and wife Lori, Curtis Johnston, Shane Harzke, Colten Gregory, Emily Johnston Bishop and husband Brant and Ryan Steffee; 2 great-grandsons Chance Brown and Justin Bishop; sisters Bernita Highsmith of Richland Hills and Katie Ione Briggs and husband Paul of Mesquite, special niece Shirley Weihman and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, sister Mary L. Willson and brother Robert Garvin Miller.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Chris Johnston, Curtis Johnston, Shane Harzke, Colten Gregory, Brant Bishop and Ryan Steffee.

The family request memorials be made to Kidney Foundation and American Diabetes Foundation.