Cheryl Johnson

Cheryl Johnson was born on April 15, 1946 to Jehu and Eralee Morphis in Garland, Texas. She attended Garland elementary schools and graduated from Garland High School in 1964.

During Cheryl's growing up and her high school years she took piano lessons. Those lessons served her to be able to play piano at the Garland Presbyterian Church and also teach a daughter piano lessons. 

Upon graduation from high school, she worked in the family manufacturing business as a bookkeeper, accountant and payroll clerk. While continuing to work at the family business, Cheryl attended classes at the University of Texas at Dallas. After graduating with a degree in certified public accounting, she started her career with tax preparations. 

Cheryl developed her own accounting and tax preparation business where she met her future husband, Jim Johnson, in 1988.

During her accounting career in 1987 she was honored by the National Aeronautic Association at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.  Cheryl had become an Aviation World Record Holder for her single engine aircraft flight over the North Pole. The flight coincided with the anniversary of Rear Admiral Byrd's flight over the North Pole on May 9, 1926.

One other major success came in the early 1990's when Cheryl overturned a wrongful four hundred million dollar Internal Revenue Service tax lawsuit. The result was a final refund of overpaid tax dollars.

Although Cheryl suffered for many years with multiple sclerosis, she has now passed and will live in the hearts of many.

She is survived by her husband Jim Johnson; her children, Christine and husband Devery Johnson, Kelly and husband Marc Mayo, Melanie and her husband Aaron Faulkner; her sisters Diane and husband Johnny Pace, Janis and husband Robert Ferrante; six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.