Obituaries: Mrs. Ruth Vandiver Burr, Sabine, DeSoto Parish B-600 Source: Sabine Index, Many, La., Jul 20, 1988 Submitted by: Ruth Estess restess42@cs.com ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Sabine Index - July 20, 1988 Mrs. Ruth Vandiver Burr Services for Mrs. Ruth Vandiver Burr, 68 of Mansfield, were held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 15 at Rose Neath's Mansfield Chapel. Officiating was Brother Cecil Laurence. Burial was in the Lee Cemetery. Mrs. Burr died Tuesday, July 12, 1988 at DeSoto General Hospital after a lengthy illness. She was a homemaker and a charter member of 28 years of Community Missionary Baptist Church where she was a Sunday school teacher. She is survived by her husband, Brother Garthel Burr of Mansfield; one son and daughter-in-law, Clomar and Viola Burr, Sr. of Mansfield; one daughter, Nona Ruth Kennedy and her husband Floyd of Mansfield; two sisters, Stella Summerlin of Mansfield and Carmel Hutstefler of Port Neches, Tx.; one brother, Robert C. Vandiver of Mansfield; five grandchildren, Clomar and Sheila Burr, Jr. Of Converse, Wayne and Dee Burr of Mansfield; Terry and Jennifer Kennedy of Mansfield; Pansy Kennedy of Mansfield, Jason Burr of Mansfield; two great grandchildren, Catilya Burr of Converse and Crystal Burr of Mansfield.