Golda Mae Smith Burris

Published 7:00 pm Sunday, February 13, 2011

Funeral services for Golda Mae Smith Burris, of Brookhaven, are11 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 14, at McCall Creek Baptist Church withburial in Damascus Baptist Church Cemetery in Franklin County.Brookhaven Funeral Home on Natchez Drive is in charge ofarrangements.

Visitation is Sunday from 5 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home andMonday from 10 a.m. until the time of the service at McCall CreekBaptist Church.

Mrs. Burris, 87, died Feb. 11, 2011, at Haven Hall Health CareCenter in Brookhaven. She was born in Franklin County on Feb. 9,1924, to Prentis Smith and Annie Wilson Smith.

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She was a homemaker and a member of McCall Creek BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, John A.Burris; her brothers, Walter, Carl, Charles and Calvin Smith; andher sisters, Corene Smith Cupit and Jessie Marie SmithNettles.

Survivors are her daughter, Linda Sue Lea and husband, Danny, ofWesson; her brother, Bob Smith and wife, Joann, of Vicksburg; hersisters-in-law, Jean Smith, of Moss Point, and Bobbie West, ofPetal; her husband’s sisters, Alyce Burris Porter and Ammie BurrisCupit; her grandchildren, De’Ana Lea Derrick, Sean Eugene Lea andAmanda Lea Case; her great-grandchildren, Jacob Sean Lea, TuckerLuke Lea, Jordan Lea Derrick, Presley Robin Case and Emily NicoleDerrick; her special friend, Eunice Case; two nieces, FrancesHowell and Pat Douglas; and numerous nieces and nephews.