This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/iBH.2ACIB/1013 Message Board Post: The following obit is here with permission of the Atkins Chronicle, in Atkins, Ark. Y.Z. Burris Y.Z. Burris, 90, of Malvern, died Sunday, May 25, 2003, at St. Joseph's Regional Health Center in Hot Springs. A son of the late James Otis and Winnie Darter Burris, he was born December 30, 1912, at Moreland Arkansas. He was retired from Cessna Aircraft, was a United States Army veteran of World War II serving in Germany, where he received a Purple Heart and three Bronze Stars, a Mason, a lifetime member of the Disabled American Veterans in Russellville, a member of the Tate Cemetery Association board, and a member of Mount Vernon Free Will Baptist Church. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Dora Davis Burris; a son, Y.Z. Burris, Jr.; a daughter, Winnie Sue Burris; and two brothers, Clarence and Woodrow Burris. Survivors include his wife, Agnes Burris; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Robert Burris of California, and Ricky Thomas and Marjorie Burris of Hot Springs; a daughter and son-in-law, Colleen and Ralph Hobbs of Malvern; a step-son and step-daughter-in-law, Jack C. and Jan Blankenship of Eugene, Oregon; two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Burris of Louisiana and Helen Lewallen of Malvern; eight grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, and a number of nephews and nieces. Funeral will be 2 p.m., Thursday, May 29, 2003, at Mount Vernon Free Will Baptist Church with Rev. A.E. "Bo" Coffman and Rev. Roy McLeod officiating. Burial, with military honors provided by the Rogers-Rye Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #2283, will be in Tate Cemetery near Appleton, by Shinn Funeral Service of Russellville. Active pallbearers will be Jimmy Chronister, J.D. Chronister, Clifford Duvall, Deric Duvall, Frankie Baker and Arvell Loveless. Honorary pallbearers will be Harley Henderson, Joe D. Baker, Ralph Hobbs, Jerry Don Burris, Jimmy Burris, Chris Hobbs and L.D. Blankenship. The family will receive friends on Wednesday evening, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Tate Cemetery Association Fund. Note: I am of no relation, but my sympathies go out to those of you who are. This is here as a lasting memorial for Mr. Burris.