Our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great grandmother, aunt, and friend, Rubie Dell Johnson quietly passed away at age 86 on September 6, 2024, at Research Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. She was the heart and soul of our family, and she will be dearly missed.
Rubie Dell was born on July 25, 1938, to Louie and Rubie Timmons in Greeleyville, South Carolina. She is a true southern girl at heart and loved to laugh, dance, and loved her family with all of her heart. She had a passion for cooking and taught us all the importance of family and always being there for each other. Mom knew her way around a kitchen and watch out when she started prepping for a family pig roast, holiday dinner, or a simple meal on a Wednesday cause she could dirty up a kitchen in no time flat and come out with the best meals anyone has ever tasted. She loved a good, boiled peanut and nothing tasted better to mom on a hot day then a nice cold Pepsi Cola, in a bottle of course, and a pack of nabs. Throw in a handful of peanuts and she was as happy as she could be.
Her passions included gardening, fishing, quilting, bowling, golfing, ceramics and so many other things in life that brought her joy. She had numerous pets growing up on the farm in South Carolina and later in life with our family pets, King, Raschal, Sheba, Sebastian, and JoJo. She was never someone to sit around and wait to find something to do. If it needed done, she was on her feet and doing all that she could to get it done either by herself, her children, or her husband.
Rubie Dell was married for 65 years to her soulmate, Horace Mitchell Johnson, who preceded her in death in 2017. She married Horace at the young age of 16 and started an adventure of a lifetime. As a military family for 21 years and 2 days, her and dad got to experience and explore the world together including Naples, Italy, The Azores, Portugal, Turkey, and numerous Air Force Bases in the United States, all while raising a family of four, Sherry Ann Johnson Parson, Horace Rick Johnson, Dale Mitchell Johnson and Mark David Johnson, and daughter in law Marcia Roberts in a happy and loving home. She also had and loved her numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren.
Rubie Dell is preceded in death by her parents Louie and Rubie Timmons, her brothers Daniel Timmons, Charles Timmons, and her sister Caroline Olga Johnson, her daughter in law Terri Johnson, and son in law Patrick Dean Yount.
Services will be held Friday, September 13, 2024, at McGilley & George Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 611 Chestnut, Belton, MO 64012. Visitation from 12 to 1 with funeral services beginning at 1.
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