Services for long-time community leader Ivan Johnson will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church, 403 N. Catherine St . Terrell.
Former Prec. 3 County Commissioner and Mount Olive Baptist Church pastor Ivan Johnson died Saturday. A wake will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Mount Olive Baptist Church, where he has been pastor since 1980. It will be followed Friday by visitation from 1 to 4:45 p.m. at Davis Funeral Home, 612 S. Rockwall St.
Services are set for 11 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church, 403 N. Catherine St.
Rev. Johnson was a community leader for more the 25 years. He owned the Ivan Johnson Insurance Agency for more than 20 years.
He was elected the Prec. 3 County Commissioner in 1986 and served until 2004. He was the first black to be elected president of the North and East Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association. He was a director of the Texas Association of Counties.
In 1977, he became pastor of Little Flock in Forney and moved to Mount Olive in 1980, where he remained pastor. He served as president of the Terrell Ministers Union for 26 years. He was moderator of the Zion Rest District Association for eight years and a chaplain at Terrell State Hospital since 2006.
He was born in Dallas in 1937 and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1955. He was student council president and senior class vice president.
He attended Los Angeles city and state colleges and completed a two-year entrepreneurial program at Southern Methodist University in 1998. In 2001, he graduated from Andersonville Seminary in Camellia, Ga. with a bachelor’s degree in theology. He also earned a prestigious certificate from Texas A&M University for completing a commissioners curriculum.
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