A celebration of life service for Margada Elaine Johnson Graves will be held 2:00 p.m. on Friday, April 19, 2013 at Downs Funeral Home. Family and friends visitation will be Thursday, evening from 6-8 p.m. Elaine was born November 8, 1936 in Marshall to George Dacus Johnson Sr. and Onie Pearalee Bryan Johnson. She went home to be with her Lord and Savior on April 16, 2013. She married Roy Graves, Jr. on February 12, 1954 in Marshall. She had worked at the Blue Buckle and for 27 years at Thiokol Army Ammunition Plant. Having a giving heart, she enjoyed doing for others and being with family was the delight of her life. She was a living example of the Fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Elaine was preceded in death by her husband in July 1988, her parents, a sister Nancy Johnson Williams and her brother George Dacus "Dick" Johnson Jr. Elaine is survived by her children, Debbie and Lee Pyle, Teresa and Tim Brown, Roy W. "Butch" and Debbie Graves, Anita and Randy Johnson; 9 grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren; a sister, Martha Johnson Dalton; and numerous other family and friends. Pallbearers will be Butch Graves, Tim Brown, Bryan Johnson, Dillon Kloecker, Derek Kloecker, Walter Whitener and Garry Simmons. Honorary pallbearers will be her nephews, John Wesley "Bo" Williams, William L. "Bubba" Dalton, Bryan Keith Johnson and Robert Anthony "Andy" Williams.