Horace DeVon Johnson

Horace DeVon Johnson, 90, of Leesburg, GA entered the presence of his Heavenly Father on Monday, October 5, 2026. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 3pm, at Mathews Funeral home. Rev. Brian M. Tippett will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.

Born in Morgan, GA, Mr. Johnson resided in Albany, GA and Leesburg, GA most of his life. He was a retired insurance executive, having worked with Horace Mann Insurance for over twenty years and with Cotton States as a personal line agent. While working in insurance, he was a member of Albany Life Underwriters Association and the Life Underwriter’s Training Council Fellowship.

Mr. Johnson was a member of First Free Will Baptist Church where he served as a deacon, trustee, Sunday School Teacher of the Christian Laborers class and a choir member. He also served as Secretary of the Georgia Master’s Men Association within the Free Will Baptist denomination.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Harvey Monroe Johnson and Erie D. Griffin Johnson, a sister, Janice L. Gray, a brother Derryl O. Johnson, his grandson, Mitchell C. Tippett and his son, Steven H. Johnson.

Survivors include his wife of 68 years, Nina B. Johnson, Leesburg, GA, daughters Dawn Johnson Clenney (Rusty), Albany, GA, Kimberly Johnson Tippett (Brian), Wilson, NC, daughter-in-law Carra D. Johnson, Woodstock GA; grandchildren, Steven H. Johnson, II, Jordan Carraway, Samuel Johnson (Yasmin), Jessica Aldridge (Mike), Lydia Knotts (Johnny), Stuart Johnson, Abigail Haight (David), Tyler Clenney, Rachel Clenney and six great-granddaughters.

The family will receive family and friends Thursday from 2pm until the funeral hour at Mathews Funeral Home.