LOTTIE M. BURNETT

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Lottie Mae Burnett, 98, was born February 28, 1926, in Littleton, NC.  She was the beloved daughter of the late James and Ruth Hines Johnson.

She attended Clairton High School and prior to graduation relocated to the nation's capital Washington DC where she became a welder for the United States military. She is the second oldest of five sisters and no brothers. She and her sisters migrated from North Carolina to Clairton with her Uncle Littlefield Hines at the young age of 6 years old.

Lottie was an avid crafter, attending pottery classes and creating unique works of art. She loved decorating her home, traveling, attending church services, and dressing to the nine “as you all know”!  She received recognition from the Clairton High School-Steppers Mothers Club in 2015 for her volunteer services supporting its marching majorettes and drummers. She is truly a lifelong “Clairtonian” and a lover of the Clairton Bears and the Pittsburgh Steelers football teams.

As a member since 1957, Lottie attended several Church of God in Christ Holy Convocations with Gethsemane church missionaries, fellow-shipping in several different states.  She always loved traveling throughout the country visiting close and extended family members. She was a woman who truly loved people and they loved her.  She never stopped talking about her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and ministering to others about their souls, including her children, family, and friends  She would even tell them about hell; so that they would know where they did not want to go for eternity.

Lottie participated in a weekly International Prayer Service, with one of our very own Clairtonian’s Mrs. LaVerne “Fields/Wentzell” Jackson.  So, if you loved Mrs. Lottie, then you know to get your soul right if you want to see her again. She was truly one of God’s soldiers/ prayer warriors whom many people would always ask her to pray for them.

She departed this life on September 5, 2024, in her home with her five loving children by her bedside.  She was preceded in death by her husband, Willie B Burnett, father, James Johnson, mother, Ruth Hines Johnson-Nowlin; sons, Timothy (childbirth), and Bernard Burnett, sisters, Irma Johnson, Arella Anderson, Dorothy Straughter-Lawson, and Elizabeth Hamlin.

Lottie met and married Willie B Burnett and together raised six children and a grandson Juan Burnett (she raised as her son).  In her latter years, her granddaughter Danielle was her loving caregiver. She is survived by her three daughters, Pearl Thomas (Philadelphia), Lorraine (Rainy) Burnett King (Chicago, IL / Clairton, Pa), Letitia (Tish) Blakey (McKeesport); two sons James (Butch) Gregory, and Willoughby (Nish) Burnett; eighteen grandchildren;  nineteen great-grandchildren; and thirty-seven great-great grandchildren & two on the way; and a host of nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.