Wilkes County‘s Flossie Clark Johnson, 90, continuously referred to because the “First Girl of NASCAR,” died Thursday morning. Funeral preparations are incomplete.
Johnson modified into as soon as known for sharing her like via her cooking, and for sharing her data and abilities in published cookbooks.
Charles Williams, retired editor of the Wilkes Journal-Patriot, called Johnson a “staunch angel who cherished her family, her church, her neighborhood and the many chums she remodeled the years in racing.”
“If the weekend scurry modified into as soon as interior driving distance, Flossie would arise early within the morning and put together meals that filled the trunk of the automobile. She would feed crewmen, chums and any individual who dropped by,” talked about Williams.
“Even after the scurry retailers closed, quite a bit of the drivers and crewmen would return to the Hole to talk to with Flossie,” he added.
Sooner than she married NASCAR story Junior Johnson, Flossie worked as a cell phone operator in Winston-Salem. “I desired to be a nurse sooner than working for the cell phone company. We rang the numbers for folk, on what they called the incoming calls.”
Below terms of the out-of-court docket divorce settlement of Junior and Flossie Johnson within the early 1990s, Johnson saved his two NASCAR racing teams and she saved their dwelling and poultry farm within the Somers neighborhood of southeastern Wilkes. Junior Johnson died on Dec. 20, 2019.
— Journal Patriot —
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