Mrs. Catherine Fagan Johnson

Obituary For Mrs. Catherine Fagan Johnson

Mrs. Catherine Fagan Johnson passed on Thursday, February 23, 2023 in Baltimore, Maryland. Visitation will be held on Saturday, March 11, 2023 from 10:00 A.M. until 11:00 A.M. at Trice Funeral Home. Funeral service will be held on Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 11:00 A.M. at Trice Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be in King's Hill Cemetery, Cullloden, GA. Trice Funeral Home of Thomaston in charge of all arrangements. Please keep the Fagan and Johnson families in prayer. Mrs. Catherine Johnson was born on June 24, 1940, to the parents of the late Mrs. Annie Laura Fagan and the late Mr. Morris Fagan, Sr in Culloden, Monroe County, GA. She was educated in the Monroe County School System and attended Hubbard High School.

After high school, Catherine moved to New York and became a Keypunch Operator for IBM, which was one of many jobs she performed. She was soon blessed with a beautiful daughter, Etta D. Willis (Carter). She then decided to migrate to Baltimore, MD, where she became a certified Forklift Operator at Bethlehem Stee of Maryland. She was also employed at Chem Meadows Steel, where she was awarded a Certificate of Honor for ten years of service. She was very proud to be a female forklift driver. She would also retire as a steel worker.

Catherine loved to cook and feed people in the community. She became a real fisherperson who had fishing buddies everywhere. She who would sometimes out fish the men. She also enjoyed gardening. Even though she became ill, she continued to give and help anyone she could.

Catherine was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Morris Fagan, Jr. and Blake Fagan; sisters, Annie M. Fagan and Alma Rutherford; and niece, Helen Fagan. On Thursday, February 23, 2023, the Lord determined that her journey had come to an end. She fought a good fight, but she began to lose the battle when the cancer advanced into stage 4. She was a strong, independent and passionate mother, sister, woman and friend to the end! Catherine leaves to cherish her memories, a daughter, Etta Denise Carter; sister, Mary J. (Ronnie) Howard; brother, George W. (Loucille) Fagan; nephews, Otis F. Fagan, Michael Fagan, Barry Rutherford, Marvin Rutherford, Demetrius Fagan, Otis Fagan and Andrew Rutherford, Jr nieces, Tina Owens, Carolyn Webb, Lillie M. Fagan, Henryetta Fagan, and Eurika Fagan; adopted daughters and sons, Deborah Horne, Lisa Stigall, Jamal Harris and Pat Miller; support team , Lorretta Adams, Lonnie McCray, Paul Smith, Machell , Bonnie Fagan, Paige Haden, Mr. Steve and Mrs. Rebecca, Will and Angela Lemon, Marva and Dee of (Tochterman’s Tackle Shop); host of cousins, other family and friends.