Norman T. "Dobie" Burns, age 70, Joplin, MO, passed away Monday, May 3, 2004, at his home.
He was born Jan. 16, 1934, in Joplin, MO and was a lifetime resident. He was a dock worker at Yellow Transit for several years and worked as a carpenter in residential construction for 20 years, retiring due to ill health. He married Dorothy May Brokob on May 27, 1981, in Miami, Okla. They went on to have a wonderful marriage and relationship. She survives at the home.
Additional survivors include two sons, Shane Burns and his wife, Cindy, Webb City, Tom Woods and his wife, Thseresa, Joplin; two daughters, Debra Fitzgerald and her husband, Jim, Joplin, Sue Gurley and her husband, Dewayne, Joplin; six grandchildren, Dylan, Patty, Tonya, Rose, Amanda, Ashley; four great-grandchildren with one expected; two brothers, Ben Burns and Calvin Burns, both of Joplin, two sisters, Edna Lee, Smithfield, Mary Mitchell, Joplin; and many other family and friends.
He was well known and loved by many. Mr. Burns was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Patty Joan Burns; and two brothers, Charles Burns and Bill Burns.
Services were held Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at Parker Mortuary Chapel. Rev. Doug Wilkerson officiated. Interment was at Moore Cemetery, Nevada, MO. The family received friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Wedneday at Parker Mortuary Chapel. The family served as pallbearers.
He was born Jan. 16, 1934, in Joplin, MO and was a lifetime resident. He was a dock worker at Yellow Transit for several years and worked as a carpenter in residential construction for 20 years, retiring due to ill health. He married Dorothy May Brokob on May 27, 1981, in Miami, Okla. They went on to have a wonderful marriage and relationship. She survives at the home.
Additional survivors include two sons, Shane Burns and his wife, Cindy, Webb City, Tom Woods and his wife, Thseresa, Joplin; two daughters, Debra Fitzgerald and her husband, Jim, Joplin, Sue Gurley and her husband, Dewayne, Joplin; six grandchildren, Dylan, Patty, Tonya, Rose, Amanda, Ashley; four great-grandchildren with one expected; two brothers, Ben Burns and Calvin Burns, both of Joplin, two sisters, Edna Lee, Smithfield, Mary Mitchell, Joplin; and many other family and friends.
He was well known and loved by many. Mr. Burns was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Patty Joan Burns; and two brothers, Charles Burns and Bill Burns.
Services were held Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at Parker Mortuary Chapel. Rev. Doug Wilkerson officiated. Interment was at Moore Cemetery, Nevada, MO. The family received friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Wedneday at Parker Mortuary Chapel. The family served as pallbearers.
Norman T. "Dobie" Burns, age 70, Joplin, MO, passed away Monday, May 3, 2004, at his home.
He was born Jan. 16, 1934, in Joplin, MO and was a lifetime resident. He was a dock worker at Yellow Transit for several years and worked as a carpenter in residential construction for 20 years, retiring due to ill health. He married Dorothy May Brokob on May 27, 1981, in Miami, Okla. They went on to have a wonderful marriage and relationship. She survives at the home.
Additional survivors include two sons, Shane Burns and his wife, Cindy, Webb City, Tom Woods and his wife, Thseresa, Joplin; two daughters, Debra Fitzgerald and her husband, Jim, Joplin, Sue Gurley and her husband, Dewayne, Joplin; six grandchildren, Dylan, Patty, Tonya, Rose, Amanda, Ashley; four great-grandchildren with one expected; two brothers, Ben Burns and Calvin Burns, both of Joplin, two sisters, Edna Lee, Smithfield, Mary Mitchell, Joplin; and many other family and friends.
He was well known and loved by many. Mr. Burns was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Patty Joan Burns; and two brothers, Charles Burns and Bill Burns.
Services were held Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at Parker Mortuary Chapel. Rev. Doug Wilkerson officiated. Interment was at Moore Cemetery, Nevada, MO. The family received friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Wedneday at Parker Mortuary Chapel. The family served as pallbearers.
He was born Jan. 16, 1934, in Joplin, MO and was a lifetime resident. He was a dock worker at Yellow Transit for several years and worked as a carpenter in residential construction for 20 years, retiring due to ill health. He married Dorothy May Brokob on May 27, 1981, in Miami, Okla. They went on to have a wonderful marriage and relationship. She survives at the home.
Additional survivors include two sons, Shane Burns and his wife, Cindy, Webb City, Tom Woods and his wife, Thseresa, Joplin; two daughters, Debra Fitzgerald and her husband, Jim, Joplin, Sue Gurley and her husband, Dewayne, Joplin; six grandchildren, Dylan, Patty, Tonya, Rose, Amanda, Ashley; four great-grandchildren with one expected; two brothers, Ben Burns and Calvin Burns, both of Joplin, two sisters, Edna Lee, Smithfield, Mary Mitchell, Joplin; and many other family and friends.
He was well known and loved by many. Mr. Burns was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Patty Joan Burns; and two brothers, Charles Burns and Bill Burns.
Services were held Thursday at 1:00 p.m. at Parker Mortuary Chapel. Rev. Doug Wilkerson officiated. Interment was at Moore Cemetery, Nevada, MO. The family received friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Wedneday at Parker Mortuary Chapel. The family served as pallbearers.
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