Services for Raymond Patterson "Pop" Burnett, 83, Wills Point, are scheduled for 4 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Wills Point with the Rev. Don Myers officiating. Burial will be in White Rose Cemetery under direction of Allan Fuller Funeral Home, Wills Point. Mr. Burnett died January 27, 2006, in a Dallas Hospital.
He was born December 4, 1922, in Wills Point to the late Cris and Nancy Whitaker Burnett, and was a lifelong resident. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, owned and operated Burnett's Drive-In Grocery Store in Wills Point for 33 years, and was a 59-year member of First Baptist Church and a member of Masonic Lodge No. 422. He was preceded in death by brothers, Leroy, Boston, and Woodrow Burnett; and sisters, Ola Hughes, Ora Earnhart and Lena Davis.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Betty Johnson Burnett, Wills Point; daughter, Ramona Oats, Wills Point; sons, Donn Burnett, R. P. "Pat" Burnett and Cris Burnett, all of Wills Point; and seven grandchildren. Pallbearers are Ben Goggans, Joey Lane, Ken Herrin, Keith Ragland, John Deen and Fred Baker. Honorary pallbearers are Bob Martin and Theo "Cotton" Miles.
He was born December 4, 1922, in Wills Point to the late Cris and Nancy Whitaker Burnett, and was a lifelong resident. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, owned and operated Burnett's Drive-In Grocery Store in Wills Point for 33 years, and was a 59-year member of First Baptist Church and a member of Masonic Lodge No. 422. He was preceded in death by brothers, Leroy, Boston, and Woodrow Burnett; and sisters, Ola Hughes, Ora Earnhart and Lena Davis.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Betty Johnson Burnett, Wills Point; daughter, Ramona Oats, Wills Point; sons, Donn Burnett, R. P. "Pat" Burnett and Cris Burnett, all of Wills Point; and seven grandchildren. Pallbearers are Ben Goggans, Joey Lane, Ken Herrin, Keith Ragland, John Deen and Fred Baker. Honorary pallbearers are Bob Martin and Theo "Cotton" Miles.
Services for Raymond Patterson "Pop" Burnett, 83, Wills Point, are scheduled for 4 p.m. Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Wills Point with the Rev. Don Myers officiating. Burial will be in White Rose Cemetery under direction of Allan Fuller Funeral Home, Wills Point. Mr. Burnett died January 27, 2006, in a Dallas Hospital.
He was born December 4, 1922, in Wills Point to the late Cris and Nancy Whitaker Burnett, and was a lifelong resident. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, owned and operated Burnett's Drive-In Grocery Store in Wills Point for 33 years, and was a 59-year member of First Baptist Church and a member of Masonic Lodge No. 422. He was preceded in death by brothers, Leroy, Boston, and Woodrow Burnett; and sisters, Ola Hughes, Ora Earnhart and Lena Davis.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Betty Johnson Burnett, Wills Point; daughter, Ramona Oats, Wills Point; sons, Donn Burnett, R. P. "Pat" Burnett and Cris Burnett, all of Wills Point; and seven grandchildren. Pallbearers are Ben Goggans, Joey Lane, Ken Herrin, Keith Ragland, John Deen and Fred Baker. Honorary pallbearers are Bob Martin and Theo "Cotton" Miles.
He was born December 4, 1922, in Wills Point to the late Cris and Nancy Whitaker Burnett, and was a lifelong resident. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, owned and operated Burnett's Drive-In Grocery Store in Wills Point for 33 years, and was a 59-year member of First Baptist Church and a member of Masonic Lodge No. 422. He was preceded in death by brothers, Leroy, Boston, and Woodrow Burnett; and sisters, Ola Hughes, Ora Earnhart and Lena Davis.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Betty Johnson Burnett, Wills Point; daughter, Ramona Oats, Wills Point; sons, Donn Burnett, R. P. "Pat" Burnett and Cris Burnett, all of Wills Point; and seven grandchildren. Pallbearers are Ben Goggans, Joey Lane, Ken Herrin, Keith Ragland, John Deen and Fred Baker. Honorary pallbearers are Bob Martin and Theo "Cotton" Miles.
