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John Houser Obituary
December 28, 1945 - July 18, 2022
Perry, Georgia - John Henry "Johnny" Houser, Jr., 76, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, July 18, 2022, from injuries sustained in a tragic bicycle accident. A Memorial Service will be held on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at 2:00 p.m. at St. Christopher's Episcopal Church with a Reception immediately following the service. A private inurnment will take place in Evergreen Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully requests memorial contributions to St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, 1207 Macon Road, Perry, Georgia 31069.
A lifelong resident of Perry, Johnny graduated from Perry High School in 1964. He began his college career at Emory University at Oxford and earned a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree from Georgia State University. He worked for many years with his father in the family business, Houser Construction, and learned the significance of a man's work ethic from his father's example, the value of a strong foundation, and the importance of everything working together for the good of the entity. John assumed the complete responsibilities of Houser Construction upon his father's retirement and continued building quality homes in and around Perry for over twenty years. He was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church who was actively involved and served in various capacities throughout the past forty-plus years. He was an Assistant Boy Scout Master under the direction of Joe Howell and Bobby Tuggle. John was a dutiful son who loved his parents and sacrificed a great deal to care for them in their later years. Johnny was a true outdoorsman. He enjoyed canoeing, riding his bike, hiking, and snow skiing, among other outdoor activities.
John was preceded in death by his parents, John H. Houser, Sr., and Beverly Ann Matthews Houser; and a nephew, James Smith.
Survivors include his brother and sister-in-law, Charles Matt and LuAnne Houser of Prattville, Alabama; two nieces; Stephanie Pruitt (Jon Paul) and Katherine Smith; five great-nephews; a great-niece; and many cousins and other extended family members.
Condolences for the family may be left in the online guestbook at www.watsonhunt.com. Watson-Hunt Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.
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James M Tallman, M.D.
July 25, 2022
I lived 2 door down the hall from John 1965-1966 at Emory at Oxford. He was a very kind person, who cared about others.
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Jimmy Suber
July 23, 2022
Johnny was a close friend from 1st grade in Perry to somewhere in college in Atlanta. Our families often celebrated Thanksgiving together. His mother, Ann, and my mother, Marjorie, were best friends. Our fathers, John Sr., and Bill Suber, often hunted together. The Houser family treated me as one of their own. The obituary omitted a part of Johnny and his family heritage I think is important for all to know about: That is, Johnny was an ordnance specialist for the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era and he was in Vietnam, albeit not in combat, per se. His father was a World War II pilot in the South Pacific, driving converted B-25 medium bombers as gunships, outfitted with as many as 10 fifty-caliber machine guns. Johnny's great uncle was Courtney Hodges, the only four-star general in World War II not to attend West Point. More importantly, he was also from Perry, Ga., and he was commander of the First Army which captured more territory in its push into Germany after the Normandy invasion and the ensuing Bulge battle than any other Allied army, including the famous Patton's outfit. They were all three stalwart American armed servicemen, and all three hunters, providers and just good men. And Johnny soldiered on through some difficult times, keeping his deep faith in God and trying to help his nation's environment and its citizens' understandings of nature. It is a deep and breathtaking honor to have been his and his family's friend.
The Staff of Watson-Hunt Funeral Home
July 24, 2022
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