Cecelia Johnson

1979 - 2014

Cecelia Johnson Houston artist, Cecelia Johnson, age 35, died peacefully in her home on October 27, 2014. She was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on March 1, 1979, and lived in the Houston area most of her life.
Cecelia was a vivacious person and dedicated artist in spite of a long and painful struggle with multiple sclerosis and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Not only was she a prolific artist, she also constantly encouraged others to express themselves through visual art.
It has been said that life is not about how you handle the things you acquire but how you handle the things you lose. Cecelia struggled against the loss of her body strength, yet continued to produce art through many kinds of media. She once said that if her finger was her last usable body part, she would do fingerpainting.
Cecelia is survived by mother Patti DeWitt Folkerts and stepfather Ron Folkerts of Cedar Creek, Texas; father, Stephen Johnson of Hot Springs, Arkansas; brother Joel Johnson of Paris, Kentucky; brother Matthew Johnson and grandmothers Pat Cecelia Darnell and Ingrid Woodward, all of Hot Springs, as well as numerous loving aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.
Services will be held Sunday, November 16, 2014, at 1:00 PM at Camp Yorktown Bay on Lake Ouachita in Mountain Pine, Arkansas. Her family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the Department of Art, Lamar University, PO Box 10027, Beaumont, Texas, 77710, to establish a scholarship fund in her name.