OBITUARY 17 October 2000 The Commercial Appeal

RIPLEY – Johnny Franklin Pittman, 67, truck driver, died of heart failure Sunday at Saint Francis Hospital in Memphis. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Garner Funeral Home with burial in Edith Cemetery. He was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church. Mr. Pittman, the husband of Dorothy Campbell Pittman, also leaves a daughter, Gwendolyn Booker of Ripley; a son, Danny Pittman of Aurora, Ill.; a sister, Dora Rupple of New Albany, Miss., and three grandchildren.