Custer Co., OK - OBIT:  Artice C. BURNS

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Submitted by:  Howard Grisso
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  Surnames: BURNS, Nunn, Ekdahl, Simmons, Boyett, Late, Curtner
 
  BURNS, Artice C.
  Medford Mail Tribune, OR
  04-28-2001

  The graveside service for Artice C. Burns will be at 1 p.m. Monday at 
  Hawthorne Memorial Gardens. The Rev. Charles Didato of College Heights 
  Baptist Church will officiate. The memorial service will be at 3 p.m. 
  Saturday, May 5, at College Heights Baptist Church in Grants Pass.

  Mrs. Burns, 88, of Grants Pass, died Thursday (April 26, 2001) at her home.

  Memorial contributions may be made to the College Heights Baptist Church, 
  1832 Dowell Road, Grants Pass, OR 97527.

  She was born May 19, 1912, in Clinton, OK, a daughter of David and Sallie Nunn. 
  She graduated from high school in Roosevelt, OK, and attended Teacher's College 
  in Weatherford, OK. She moved to California in 1930. On Sept. 13, 1941, in 
  San Jose, CA, she married Ira Burns, who died in 1979. They moved to Lake Creek 
  in 1943, and settled in Medford in 1946.

  In Medford, Mrs. Burns sold real estate for a time, and worked in sales 
  and as a bookkeeper for Singer Sewing Machine Co. for 10 years. She and her 
  husband moved to Grants Pass in 1963, where they operated the Anglers
  Court for nine years.

  She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

  Mrs. Burns was an active member of College Heights Baptist Church, where she 
  taught Sunday School.

  Sewing was one of her many hobbies.

  Survivors include a daughter, Billie J. Ekdahl, Grants Pass; three sisters, 
  Anita Simmons, Quartz Hill, CA, Marie Boyett, San Antonio, TX, and Yolanda Late, 
  Odessa, TX. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Thaddeus Curtner;
  and two sons, DeWayne and Daryle Curtner.

  Friends may pay their respects from 9 a.m. to noon Monday at Chapel of the 
  Valley Funeral Home, Grants Pass.