With sad and heavy hearts, we announce our precious Mama and Mawmaw, Retta Pauline "Polly" Dotson Johnson peacefully left the earth on August 22, 2025, and is now with her Lord and Savior. Although we are sad, we find comfort in knowing she is pain free and she is where her heart longed to be. We smile because we know she's giving all her family and friends one of her special hugs.

Above all Polly loved God and her family. We knew without a shadow of doubt she was praying for us. She loved each of us unconditionally, and she supported us in everything we did. It was from her that we learned how to be a family and how to love. She was our constant, and the one who taught us about God.

Polly joined First Baptist Church of Blowing Rock in 1952. She made sure we were all grounded in our faith. Polly loved her church family. When Polly walked through the gates of heaven, she was met there by her husband Stephen Hawthorne Johnson, her parents Albert Aaron and Rosa Lee Hollars Dotson, her brothers Earl Dotson, Beryl Dotson, Ted Dotson and Kenneth Ray Dotson, her sisters Mamie Dotson and Eddie Joann  Dotson Kimbell.

Left to cherish her memory are her daughters and sons-in-law (sons as she called them), Carol Pitts and husband Bill, Donna Hampton and husband Larry and Becky Guinn and husband Mark, her grandchildren Linda Foster and husband Jeff, James Hampton, Crystal Cheek, Teri Osley and husband Kenny, Chad Pitts and wife Stephanie, Sara Wickline and husband Zack, Katy Osborne and husband Randall, great-grandchildren Brandon Hampton, Stephen Hampton and Brittany Coffey, Andrea Foster and Trey Riley, Jordan Foster and wife Cassidy, Bryson Pearson, Chelsea Osley, Tyler Osley, Charley Pitts, Rilan Pitts, Liam Wickline, Mason Wickline and Landen Osborne, great-great-grandchildren, Isabella Hampton and Kennedy Foster, one sister Judy Elliott and husband Doug and numerous nieces and nephews.

Polly was asked what she would want everyone to know, and her response was "Love God, Live For God, I Want Everybody To Go To Heaven." We are going to miss her heart-warming smile, comforting hugs, her kisses, and her "I love you precious", but we know this isn't goodbye, it's we will see you later. We will forever carry her in our hearts, for she was our most precious Mama and Mawmaw.

The family would like to thank Medi Home Hospice and First Baptist Church of Blowing Rock. You have made this transition time more comfortable. She loved each and every one of you, and we love you too.

A memorial service will be held 1:00 PM Wednesday August 27, 2025, at First Baptist Church of Blowing Rock. Pastor Rusty Guenther will officiate.

The family will receive friends from 12:00 until 1:00, prior to the service.

In lieu of flowers the family request that memorials be made to First Baptist Church of Blowing Rock, P.O. Box 3, Blowing Rock, North Carolina 28605 or to Medi Home Hospice, 400 Shadowline Drive Suite 102, Boone, North Carolina 28607.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.hamptonfuneralnc.com

Hampton Funeral and Cremation Service is in charge of the arrangements.

'