Lanelle Burns Douglas

Published 5:00 am Friday, June 22, 2007

Graveside services for Lanelle Burns Douglas, of Shreveport,La., are 2 p.m. Saturday, June 23, at Rosehill Cemetery inBrookhaven. Harrigill Funeral Home is in charge ofarrangements.

Visitation is Saturday from 12:30 until 1:30 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Douglas, 94, went to be with our Lord on Thursday, June 21,2007, in Shreveport. She was born on Oct. 20, 1912, to Henry Burnsand Maggie Burns.

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She was a devoted wife and mother. She was active in her church aslong as she was able.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband of 72 years,Willie C. “Bill” Douglas; her brothers, Aubrey Burns and ArthurBurns; and her sister, Grace Burns Huhn.

Survivors are her son, Carey Regeland Douglas and wife Jeannette,of San Antonio, Texas; her daughter, Peggy D. Powell, ofShreveport; her brother, Sheldon Burns and wife Elaine, ofGeorgetown, Ky.; her grandchildren, Kevin Douglas and wife Pam, ofTexarkana, Texas, Karen Alexander and husband Mark, of Cordoba,Argentina, Shawn Arnold, of Fernandina Beach, Fla., and ShaneArnold and wife Lisa, of Birmingham, Ala.; and hergreat-grandchildren, Ariel, Lucas and Steven Alexander.