At almost 90 years young and less than 5 feet tall, Mrs. Lottie Johnson has seen her share of growth and change in small-town Statesboro. In fact, her entrepreneurial thinking brought about some of that change. Lottie Olliff married a handsome farmer named Grady Johnson in the fall of 1945.
Statesboro's Lottie Johnson: A little lady with big ideas
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