A funeral Mass for Mark Anthony Johnson will be said at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church with the Rev. Malcolm O’Leary, SVD, officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Friday with Rosary at 6 at Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home.

Mr. Johnson died Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, at the G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery Veterans Administration Medical Center in Jackson. He was 53.

A lifelong resident of Vicksburg, he attended St. Mary’s Catholic School and was a 1975 graduate of St. Aloysius High School. He attended Alcorn State University and served seven years in the Air Force.

He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

He was preceded in death by his father, Willie Wong Chong.

Survivors include his mother, Myrtle D. Chong; a son, Mark W. Johnson of Kansas City, Mo.; two daughters, Asia Johnson and Kara Johnson, both of Kansas City; four brothers, Cecil S. Johnson of Horn Lake, Josef Johnson of Los Angeles, Willie Chong Jr. of Fayetteville, N.C., and Leon Robinson of Vicksburg; one sister, Nancy Pendry of Sumter, S.C.; four grandchildren; and an uncle, aunts, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.