Johnny Mac Sanders, 67, a popular cutting horse trainer from Canton, Mississippi, died Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson.

Visitation will be Friday, January 31 at the Wilcox Funeral Home, 106 Jordan Road, Carthage, MS 39051 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. (Phone 601-267-8081).

Services are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Saturday, February 1, 2014 at Freeny Baptist Church with Bro. Shannon Hall, Bro. Marcus Canoy, and Johnny Barranco officiating. Burial was in the Caldwell (Freeny) Cemetery. Wilcox Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Johnny Mac, a native of Leake County, was a member of Freeny Baptist Church. He was a member of the Mississippi Quarter Horse Association, American Quarter Horse Association, and National Cutting Horse Association. He was past president of Mississippi Quarter Horse Association and Magnolia Cutting Horse Association.

He served as an AQHA judge where he judged Quarter Horse Congress and the AQHA World Championship Show. He also was an American Paint Horse Association judge where he judged the Paint Horse World Championship Show.

He instructed at clinics in Australia and Argentina for AQHA. In 1995 Johnny Mack served on the ground breaking committee for the Kirk Fordice Equine Building and was a member of the Fairground Commission Board.

Survivors include his brother, Jim Sanders of Carthage, and sister, Mary Griffin of Barndon.

Pallbearers include: Steve Ferguson, Tom Hixon, Johnny Stewart, Meredith MCullar, David Russell, Wilson Harrell, and Tom McBeth.
Honorary Pallbearers were: Dr. John Bower, Danny Watts, Joe Johnson, Joey Carroll, and Ben Emison.