Mr. Johnny C. Heath, Sr., passed away on Sunday, April 26, 2026, at the Burn Center in Augusta, GA. Funeral services will be held at Shiloh Baptist Church on Friday, May 1, 2026, at 11:00AM with Bro. Stephen Fripp and Rev. Hugh Harbort officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be Garry Green, Rick Davis, Jim Davis, James Storey, Tony Kennedy, and Steve Kennedy. Honorary pallbearers will be Frank Joiner, Al Johnson, Employees and Retirees of Sumter Electric, and the Freddie Ward Sunday School Class at Shiloh Baptist Church. The family will greet friends at Way-Watson Funeral Home in Ellaville on Thursday from 5:00 -7:00PM.

Johnny was born in the Doyle community of Marion County, GA, on July 10, 1943, to Bonnie Kennedy and Ernest Heath. He lived in Americus for many years and was a lineman with Sumter EMC for 52 years until his retirement in 2012. Sumter EMC was the only place he ever worked and he loved working there. He always said, “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.” He will be remembered by many as the person who went on storm trips for Sumter EMC all over the U.S. and he loved “putting consumer’s lights back on.” Johnny will also be remembered for his love for his Lord, telling everyone that he met, “How good God is” and “Have a blessed day.” Johnny is Just Right now, because he is with his Lord. Johnny loved to plant and watch things grow. He had beautiful roses, which he tended faithfully and always had a bountiful vegetable garden. Johnny was a loving husband, father, father-in-law, grandfather, and friend. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Jean Davis Heath.

He is survived by his wife, Paula Dunlap Southwell Heath of Americus & Preston; his children, Teresa Carver & Jack and Johnny Chris Heath, Jr. and Mark; granddaughter, Katie Elizabeth Wright and Chandler, a great-grandson, Austin Shiloh Wright and a great-granddaughter, due in May, all of Perry, GA; sisters-in-law, Lou Heath of Preston, GA, Charlotte Davis Greene of Ellaville, GA and Eleanor Davis of Albany, GA; a brother-in-law, Hayward Davis of Americus, GA; and many loving nieces and nephews; He is also survived by bonus children, Tammy S. Crumbley and her husband Dean, and Angie Bennett and her husband Paul, and grandchildren, Joseph Crumbley, Leigh Crumbley, Tori Batts, and Emily Kauffman.

Donations may be made to the Burn Foundation of America at https://app.securegive.com/SFBF or to Shiloh Baptist Church at 961 Shiloh Rd., Americus, GA 31719.

Services for the Heath Family have been under the care and direction of Way-Watson Funeral Home.