Mr. Larry Johnson
Mr. Larry Dean Johnson, a resident of Provo Community in Lockesburg, Arkansas, was the tenth and last child born to Ebbin White Johnson and Willie Lou Bishop in Lone Grove, Texas, on Monday, February 14, 1949, and left us for his forever home in heaven on Sunday, October 10, 2021, at 72 years old.

Larry spent the first four years of his life as part of a migrant farmworker family, working in the fields alongside his siblings and parents. He graduated from Arvin High School in 1967. Larry served in the U.S. Air Force from 1968 to 1973. He worked in oil production, carpentry, construction, farming, maintenance, and other jobs to support his family. Larry retired in 2011. He enjoyed spending time with his family.

He was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers: Jerome, Roy, Donnie, and Ebbin Johnson; and three sisters: Beulah Cady, Eula Moore, and Martha Bone.

Larry is survived by his wife Jean; four daughters: Sasha Johnson, Lee Awna Johnson, Abbie Hall, and Mindy Zacarias; three sisters: Peairlee Hall, Reba Young, and Wilma Green-Harget; eight grandchildren: Christina Johnson, Sabrina Wertz, Sarah Nash, Cylindria Johnson, Sage Johnson, Amanda Sain, Adrian Zacarias, and Antonio Zacarias; four great-grandchildren: Leon Wertz, Indigo Downing, Daedric Daniels, and Desmond Bouchard; his best friend: Bill Dildy; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Services for Mr. Larry Johnson will be privately held, with burial at McHorse Cemetery in the Provo Community. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Chandler Funeral Home of De Queen. You may send an online sympathy message at www.chandlerfuneral.com.