Sunrise: August 30, 1956
Sunset: December 11, 2025
Sunset: December 11, 2025
Funeral Service
Saturday, December 20, 2025
11:00 a.m.
Sunset Missionary Baptist Church
808 Capp Street
Texarkana, Texas
Entombment
Chapelwood Memorial Gardens
1001 N. Kings Hwy
Wake Village, Texas
SHARON FAYE PATTON JOHNSON, SECOND DAUGHTER OF HOLLIS AND IDA BELL CROCKER PATTON, WAS BORN AUGUST 30, 1956, AT ST. MICHAELS HOSPITAL IN TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS.
SHARON GREW UP IN TEXARKANA, TEXAS, ALONG WITH HER OLDER SISTER, SANDRA K. PATTON. SHE ATTENDED SYKES KINDERGARTEN, THEN ATTENDED TEXARKANA, TEXAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, SUNSET ELEMENTARY, PINE STREET JUNIOR HIGH AND HAD THE HONOR OF BEING ONE OF THE FIRST BLACK MAJORETTES IN THE TEXAS HIGH TIGER BAND AT TEXAS SENIOR HIGH, GRADUATING WITH THE CLASS OF 1974.
SHE MARRIED GARRY E. JOHNSON SR. JUNE 5, 1975, AND CONTINUED HER EDUCATION AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, TEXARKANA OBTAINING HER BACHELOR'S OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN 1979 AND MASTER'S OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN 1988.
SHARON WORKED AT TEMPLE MEMORIAL TREATMENT CENTER AS ASSISTANT TO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND BOOKKEEPER WHILE EARNING HER COLLEGE EDUCATION FROM 1975 TO 1978. SHE WORKED FOR EAST TEXAS LEGAL SERVICES INCORPORATED FOR 18 AND A HALF YEARS FROM 1978 TO 1996. SHARON HELD SEVERAL POSITIONS DURING HER TENURE WITH LEGAL SERVICES, MOST NOTABLE DOMESTIC RELATIONS COORDINATOR. SHE WAS VERY DEDICATED, SYMPATHETIC, AND COMPASSIONATE IN THIS POSITION AND SERVED AS LIAISON BETWEEN LEGAL SERVICES AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER. SHE WILLINGLY ASSISTED AND COUNSELED BATTERED INDIVIDUALS FROM THE TIME THAT THEY SEPARATED FROM A VIOLENT SITUATION THROUGH DIVORCE, OBTAINING EMPLOYMENT AND REORGANIZING THEIR LIVES. DUPLICATE COMPASSION CONTINUED IN HER POSITION AS AN ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES SPECIALIST FROM 1997 TO 2004 WITH TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PROTECTIVE AND REGULATORY SERVICES WHILE INVESTIGATING AND RESOLVING ABUSE OF THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED.
SHARON HAD A WONDERFUL AND ENJOYABLE BRIEF WORK EXPERIENCE AT CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT UNIT, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, STATE OF ARKANSAS. SHE GREW UP TO LOVE THE GROUP OF LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND CONTINUED THIS RELATIONSHIP UNTIL HER DEMISE.
IN 2004, SHARON WAS BLESSED TO BE CALLED TO WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, AS A CLAIMS REPRESENTATIVE. SHARON THOUGHT THIS TO BE ANOTHER MAJOR BLESSING DURING HER LIFETIME AND WAS VERY APPRECIATIVE. SHE LOVED HER SOCIAL SECURITY FAMILY AND THE DEDICATION SHOWN BY EACH AND EVERYONE THROUGHOUT HER ILLNES.
THE JOY OF HER LIFE WERE HER CHILDREN. CIMBERLI CHANTYN JOHNSON AND GARRY EUGENE JOHNSON, JR. SHARON WAS ONE OF THE MOST DEDICATED MOTHERS YOU COULD IMAGINE FROM THE DAY HER CHILDREN WERE BORN UNTIL HER DEATH. SHE SHUFFLED HER LIFE AS A MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, EMPLOYEE, SPOUSE, COLLEGE STUDENT, ROOM MOTHER, SERVING ON THE PTO BOARD, CHAUFFEUR, TO NAME A FEW. HER DEDICATION AND HER LIFE WERE HER CHILDREN AND TRULY LED TO THEIR SUCCESS. CIMBERLI, WHO WAS CALLED" MAMA'S KIM CAT, HAS A MASTER'S OF EDUCATION IN ADMINISTRATION FROM PRAIRIE VIEW UNIVERSITY DOCTORATE OF EDUCATION, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON AT CLEAR LAKE. SHE IS A MEMBER OF DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORATY AND DELTA SIGMA THETA INCORPORATED CHARTER MEMBER, KATY AREA ALUMN CHAPTER. IN ADDITION, LINKS INCOORORATED FORT BEND COUNTY CHAPTER AND JACK AND JILL OFAMERICA, SUGAR LAND CHAPTER.GARRY JR., WHO SHE CALLED; MAMA'S JUNEY-HEAD", HAS A BACHELOR'S OF SCIENCE AND A MASTER'S OF EDUCATION IN SPECIAL EDUCATION FROM ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY HE'S A FORMER RETIRED NEL PLAYER AND ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE NELPA, HOUSTON CHAPTER. HE'S A LIFETIME MEMBER OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNATY INCORPORATED AND AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ALPHA ETA LAMBDA, HOUSTON ALUMNI CHAPTER. SHARON WAS EXTREMELY PROUD OF BEING A GRANDMOTHER TO WHICH SHE WAS AFFECTIONALTY REFERRED TO AS "SUGAR MAMA" BY NAKIA DARROUGH II AND HOLLIS BEAUX JOHNSON-BOUDOUSQUIE.
SHARON ONLY HAS TWO BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN. HOWEVER, HER DOGS, MINITURE SCHNAUZERS, MILLER AND MADISON, WERE ALSO THE LOVE OF HER LIFE. LATER SHE BONDED WITH JONATHAN AND GARRY'S BISCHIN FRISE'S JACOB AND JOSEPH. ESPECIALLY JACOB WHO WOULD BULLY HER FOR FOOD BARKING AT HER ALL THE WAY TO THE FRIDGE, JUMPING UP IN HER LAP TO NAP, AND ALL AROUND HER BUDDY AFTER THE PASSING OF MILLER AND MADISON.
SHARON LOVED HER FAMILY AND REMAINED FAITHFUL TO HER AGING PARENTS UNTIL HER DEATH. SHE LOVED PREPARING MEALS, SOUL FOOD SUNDAY DINNERS, ALWAYS PREPARING ENOUGH FOR HER FAVORITE COUSINS AND WHOEVER DECIDED TO STOP BY, AND WAS VERY WELL KNOWN FOR HER DELICACIES OF HER OWN CREATIONS. HER LIFELONG DREAM WAS TO CONTINUE CATERING HER DELICIOUS DISHES AFTER RETIREMENT. SHE LOVED THE HOLIDAYS, ESPECIALLY ENJOYING CHRISTMAS AND JULY 4TH. PRAISING THE LORD, FELLOWSHIP, AND FAMILY WERE WHAT SHE FELT THE HOLIDAYS WERE ALL ABOUT.
SHARON LOVED THE LORD AND HER CHURCH FAMILY, GROWING UP IN THE SUNSET BAPTIST CHURCH AND REMAINING UNTIL HER DEATH. SHE WAS VERY APPRECIATIVE TO HER PASTORS, AND HER EXTENDED CHURCH FAMILY FOR THEIR LOVE AND CONCERN THROUGHOUT HER LIFE. SHARON WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER IN NOVEMBER 2004. HOWEVER, SHE NEVER HAD A BITTER MOMENT. SHE CONTINUED HER LIFE BEING APPRECIATIVE AND THANKFUL FOR THE TIME SHE EXPERIENCED ON THIS EARTH. SHE ALWAYS EXPRESSED, "I'VE HAD A GOOD LIFE"
Saturday, December 20, 2025
11:00 a.m.
Sunset Missionary Baptist Church
808 Capp Street
Texarkana, Texas
Entombment
Chapelwood Memorial Gardens
1001 N. Kings Hwy
Wake Village, Texas
SHARON FAYE PATTON JOHNSON, SECOND DAUGHTER OF HOLLIS AND IDA BELL CROCKER PATTON, WAS BORN AUGUST 30, 1956, AT ST. MICHAELS HOSPITAL IN TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS.
SHARON GREW UP IN TEXARKANA, TEXAS, ALONG WITH HER OLDER SISTER, SANDRA K. PATTON. SHE ATTENDED SYKES KINDERGARTEN, THEN ATTENDED TEXARKANA, TEXAS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT, SUNSET ELEMENTARY, PINE STREET JUNIOR HIGH AND HAD THE HONOR OF BEING ONE OF THE FIRST BLACK MAJORETTES IN THE TEXAS HIGH TIGER BAND AT TEXAS SENIOR HIGH, GRADUATING WITH THE CLASS OF 1974.
SHE MARRIED GARRY E. JOHNSON SR. JUNE 5, 1975, AND CONTINUED HER EDUCATION AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, TEXARKANA OBTAINING HER BACHELOR'S OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN 1979 AND MASTER'S OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION IN 1988.
SHARON WORKED AT TEMPLE MEMORIAL TREATMENT CENTER AS ASSISTANT TO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND BOOKKEEPER WHILE EARNING HER COLLEGE EDUCATION FROM 1975 TO 1978. SHE WORKED FOR EAST TEXAS LEGAL SERVICES INCORPORATED FOR 18 AND A HALF YEARS FROM 1978 TO 1996. SHARON HELD SEVERAL POSITIONS DURING HER TENURE WITH LEGAL SERVICES, MOST NOTABLE DOMESTIC RELATIONS COORDINATOR. SHE WAS VERY DEDICATED, SYMPATHETIC, AND COMPASSIONATE IN THIS POSITION AND SERVED AS LIAISON BETWEEN LEGAL SERVICES AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER. SHE WILLINGLY ASSISTED AND COUNSELED BATTERED INDIVIDUALS FROM THE TIME THAT THEY SEPARATED FROM A VIOLENT SITUATION THROUGH DIVORCE, OBTAINING EMPLOYMENT AND REORGANIZING THEIR LIVES. DUPLICATE COMPASSION CONTINUED IN HER POSITION AS AN ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES SPECIALIST FROM 1997 TO 2004 WITH TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PROTECTIVE AND REGULATORY SERVICES WHILE INVESTIGATING AND RESOLVING ABUSE OF THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED.
SHARON HAD A WONDERFUL AND ENJOYABLE BRIEF WORK EXPERIENCE AT CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT UNIT, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, STATE OF ARKANSAS. SHE GREW UP TO LOVE THE GROUP OF LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND CONTINUED THIS RELATIONSHIP UNTIL HER DEMISE.
IN 2004, SHARON WAS BLESSED TO BE CALLED TO WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, AS A CLAIMS REPRESENTATIVE. SHARON THOUGHT THIS TO BE ANOTHER MAJOR BLESSING DURING HER LIFETIME AND WAS VERY APPRECIATIVE. SHE LOVED HER SOCIAL SECURITY FAMILY AND THE DEDICATION SHOWN BY EACH AND EVERYONE THROUGHOUT HER ILLNES.
THE JOY OF HER LIFE WERE HER CHILDREN. CIMBERLI CHANTYN JOHNSON AND GARRY EUGENE JOHNSON, JR. SHARON WAS ONE OF THE MOST DEDICATED MOTHERS YOU COULD IMAGINE FROM THE DAY HER CHILDREN WERE BORN UNTIL HER DEATH. SHE SHUFFLED HER LIFE AS A MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, EMPLOYEE, SPOUSE, COLLEGE STUDENT, ROOM MOTHER, SERVING ON THE PTO BOARD, CHAUFFEUR, TO NAME A FEW. HER DEDICATION AND HER LIFE WERE HER CHILDREN AND TRULY LED TO THEIR SUCCESS. CIMBERLI, WHO WAS CALLED" MAMA'S KIM CAT, HAS A MASTER'S OF EDUCATION IN ADMINISTRATION FROM PRAIRIE VIEW UNIVERSITY DOCTORATE OF EDUCATION, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON AT CLEAR LAKE. SHE IS A MEMBER OF DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORATY AND DELTA SIGMA THETA INCORPORATED CHARTER MEMBER, KATY AREA ALUMN CHAPTER. IN ADDITION, LINKS INCOORORATED FORT BEND COUNTY CHAPTER AND JACK AND JILL OFAMERICA, SUGAR LAND CHAPTER.GARRY JR., WHO SHE CALLED; MAMA'S JUNEY-HEAD", HAS A BACHELOR'S OF SCIENCE AND A MASTER'S OF EDUCATION IN SPECIAL EDUCATION FROM ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY HE'S A FORMER RETIRED NEL PLAYER AND ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE NELPA, HOUSTON CHAPTER. HE'S A LIFETIME MEMBER OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNATY INCORPORATED AND AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ALPHA ETA LAMBDA, HOUSTON ALUMNI CHAPTER. SHARON WAS EXTREMELY PROUD OF BEING A GRANDMOTHER TO WHICH SHE WAS AFFECTIONALTY REFERRED TO AS "SUGAR MAMA" BY NAKIA DARROUGH II AND HOLLIS BEAUX JOHNSON-BOUDOUSQUIE.
SHARON ONLY HAS TWO BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN. HOWEVER, HER DOGS, MINITURE SCHNAUZERS, MILLER AND MADISON, WERE ALSO THE LOVE OF HER LIFE. LATER SHE BONDED WITH JONATHAN AND GARRY'S BISCHIN FRISE'S JACOB AND JOSEPH. ESPECIALLY JACOB WHO WOULD BULLY HER FOR FOOD BARKING AT HER ALL THE WAY TO THE FRIDGE, JUMPING UP IN HER LAP TO NAP, AND ALL AROUND HER BUDDY AFTER THE PASSING OF MILLER AND MADISON.
SHARON LOVED HER FAMILY AND REMAINED FAITHFUL TO HER AGING PARENTS UNTIL HER DEATH. SHE LOVED PREPARING MEALS, SOUL FOOD SUNDAY DINNERS, ALWAYS PREPARING ENOUGH FOR HER FAVORITE COUSINS AND WHOEVER DECIDED TO STOP BY, AND WAS VERY WELL KNOWN FOR HER DELICACIES OF HER OWN CREATIONS. HER LIFELONG DREAM WAS TO CONTINUE CATERING HER DELICIOUS DISHES AFTER RETIREMENT. SHE LOVED THE HOLIDAYS, ESPECIALLY ENJOYING CHRISTMAS AND JULY 4TH. PRAISING THE LORD, FELLOWSHIP, AND FAMILY WERE WHAT SHE FELT THE HOLIDAYS WERE ALL ABOUT.
SHARON LOVED THE LORD AND HER CHURCH FAMILY, GROWING UP IN THE SUNSET BAPTIST CHURCH AND REMAINING UNTIL HER DEATH. SHE WAS VERY APPRECIATIVE TO HER PASTORS, AND HER EXTENDED CHURCH FAMILY FOR THEIR LOVE AND CONCERN THROUGHOUT HER LIFE. SHARON WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER IN NOVEMBER 2004. HOWEVER, SHE NEVER HAD A BITTER MOMENT. SHE CONTINUED HER LIFE BEING APPRECIATIVE AND THANKFUL FOR THE TIME SHE EXPERIENCED ON THIS EARTH. SHE ALWAYS EXPRESSED, "I'VE HAD A GOOD LIFE"
