Deborah Dorothy Elizabeth Johnston

Deborah Dorothy Elizabeth Moore Johnston, age 90, passed on Tuesday, June 25, 2019.

The family will receive friends on Sunday, July 28th from 2:00-3:00 pm in the First Presbyterian Church Fellowship House. A private family service will follow in the Fellowship House chapel. Inurnment will be beside her husband in Memorial Garden columbarium.

Daughter of the late George Howell Moore and Martha Baum Moore, Deborah was born on November 21, 1928 in Nescopeck, PA. She was an active member of her church in Pottstown, PA., singing in the choir, directing the children’s choir and teaching Sunday school. She was a graduate of Pottstown High School and Catawba College, where she enjoyed participating in sports, and met her future husband, Robert K. Johnston, Jr. They were married on September 2, 1950. Deborah was formerly a dietician at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital (NEMC) after her internship at Germantown Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. She joined her husband who was stationed in the Army at Ft. Monmouth, NJ, where she worked for the government at Watson Laboratories. She was later employed with Belk, Carolina Mall. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church since 1950. She loved her church and her family, enjoyed traveling, gardening, bridge, golf, her daughter Kerry’s Chihuahuas, attending Catawba football games and pulling for her Panthers.

Deborah was predeceased by her husband of 62 years in 2011, her brothers, George Moore and Karl Moore, and a sister, Ethel Morehead.

She is survived by daughters, Kerry Johnston, of the home, and Karen Biddy (Richard) of High Point, her sons, Robert K. Johnston, III of Harrisburg, and Richard M. Johnston (Nancy) of Mt. Holly, and her brother Charles C. Moore (Immy) of Pottstown, PA. She is also survived by her beloved grandchildren Erin Johnston, Chase Johnston, Haley Johnston, Brandon Johnston, Jordan Biddy, and Lauren Nicastro (Anthony).

The family wishes to thank the Hospice staff for their gentle and compassionate attention, and also her loving caregiver, Jasmine Sukhram, who was such a blessing to our mother.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church for the care of Memorial Garden, PO Box 789, Concord, NC 28026-0789, or to Hospice and Palliative Care of Cabarrus County, 5003 Hospice Lane, Kannapolis, NC 28081.