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This obituary was run in the Shreveport Times Sat. May 22, 1982

Bertha Porter Burns
Bernice, LA.

Services will be held for Mrs. Bertha Porter Burns, 97, of Bernice, at 3
p.m. Saturday May 22 at the First Baptist Church of Bernice.  Rev.
Donald B. Lemons will officiate, assisted by Rev. Jim Arrant.  Burial
will be in Bernice City Cemetery.  Arrangements are under the direction
of Kilpatrick Funeral Home.
She died Friday May 21, 1982 at 10 a.m. at the Tri-ward Hospital in
Bernice following a short illness.  Mrs. Burns , the wife of the late
Rev. M. V. Burns, was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bernice.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Alice McKenzie  Durham of Junction
City, Ark.; three sons, Edward Young Burns of Bernice, James L. Burns of
Spearsville, La. and Van H. Burns of Saline, La.; two brothers, Martin
A. Porter of Bernice and Wesley W. Porter of Farmerville, La.; one
sister, Mrs. Jewel Phillips of Smackover, Ark.; 7 grandchildren and 16
great grandchildren .
Pallbearers will be James Phillips, Eddie Burns, Terry Young Burns,
Donald Lindsey, W. C. Hussell and Joe Hatley.

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Note: Bertha Porter Burns was my mothers sister and was in every way a
Christian influence on all who knew her, she was born  October 24, 1884.
Her parents were James Tillman Porter and Sarah Francis Patrick.  She
was preceded in death by her husband , Rev. Van Burns, a son, Taft
Burns, and a daughter Mary Lou Durham.

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