Ouachita-Caldwell County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....BURNS , CLIFTON W. September 2, 2010
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News Star World - September 03, 2010
CLIFTON W. BURNS 

Funeral services for Mr. Clifton Winton Burns, age 90 of Grayson, will be held 
at 2 PM Friday, September 3, 2010 from the chapel of Riser Funeral Home in 
Columbia with Rev. Chris Wilbur officiating and Wes Burns delivering the 
eulogy with Lori McCarty as the soloist. Interment will follow at Mt. Rose 
Cemetery in Grayson. The funeral home doors will be open at 8 AM on Friday 
until time of service. Mr. Burns was born in Roston, AR on October 18, 1919 to 
the union of John Thomas and Cary Steed Burns and went to be with his Lord on 
Thursday, September 2, 2010 at Citizens Medical Center in Columbia. Clifton 
was a retired Major with the US Air Force having served in WWII and Korea. He 
flew a total of 26 missions with 2 on D-Day. He was an educator having taught 
school and was the second principal of Caldwell Parish High School. He held 
many other positions including serving on the Dugdemona Soil & Water 
Conservation District, lifelong member of the Columbia Lions Club, longtime 
teacher of the adult Sunday school class at Grayson United Methodist Church 
and enjoyed raising cattle. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife; 
Marie Richardson Burns and two sisters: Lillian Russell and Dorothy Fuller. 
Survivors include his son; Judge Don C. Burns and wife, Mary, daughter; Anne 
T. Burns, grandson; Thomas Wesley "Wes" Burns and fiance' Tonya Guyton and her 
daughter, Hannah and two great-grandchildren: Cody James "Tick" McElroy and 
Amber McKenzie Burns all of Grayson. Pallbearers will be Sam Carroll, 
Cody "Tick" McElroy, Lane Dale, Wayne Barnett, John Barnett and Steve 
Richardson. Honorary pallbearers will be Buddy Gill, Herman Wyles, John 
Robinson, Howard Strebeck, Curtis Richardson, Bill Chappell and John 
Patterson. Memorials can be made to Grayson United Methodist Church, PO Box 
177, Grayson, LA 71435

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