Surrounded by her loving family, Elizabeth Margaret (Scherbring) Burnett died Saturday,
February 8, 2020 at Saint Anne's Nursing Home, Winona. She was 87. Born July 3rd , 1932 to
Louis and Margaret Scherbring of Rollingstone Township, Winona County, Minnesota.
A graduate of Holy Trinity Catholic School in Rollingstone, Betty was a resident of the Winona
area most of her life. She was married at Cathedral of the Sacred Heart on January 7, 1956 to
Richard Leo Burnett. Betty and Richard were happily married for 64 years.
Betty, with her family, was an avid hiker and camper. She and Richard introduced their four
children to camping when their youngest child was only four years of age. Whitewater State
Park and the surrounding wildlife area is well known to the family. The 1970's saw Betty with
her husband and children on several canoe trips in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Wilderness. She travelled often on vacations to the Rocky Mountains, having visited national
parks throughout the western U.S. and Canada. In later years Betty and Richard made frequent
and regular visits to the Pacific Northwest where two of her four children live and work.
Through her adult life Betty worked an assortment of full and part time jobs in the Winona
community, but for the majority of her years took pleasure in keeping and caring for her
beautiful home, growing her flower garden and feeding the birds. Betty had a unique and
colorful sense of humor. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. Her family meant
everything to her.
She was preceded in death by her parents, five brothers, and six sisters. She is survived by her
husband Richard, by her daughters Cathrine, Susan and Jane (Jim) and her son Randal (Selena);
grandchildren Oleg, Anne, Michael, Marie, Erika, Alani, and Paula, and four great-grandchildren,
along with brothers and sisters-in-law and numerous nephews and nieces.
A funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM on Thursday, February 13, 2020 at the Cathedral of the
Sacred Heart in Winona.