Mary Burns
Posted: January 16, 2017
COLUMBUS — Mary Virginia Burns, 80, died Jan. 15, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Fairview Baptist Church with Tommy Gillon and Kevin Jenkins officiating. Burial will follow in Mt. Zion Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to services. Mrs. Burns was born Feb. 15, 1936, to the late Grover and Hazel McGee Perkins. She was a member of Fairview Baptist Church. She was previously employed with United Technologies. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Horace Webster Burns; and sister, Francis Perkins. She is survived by her daughters, Denise Burns of Columbus and Janette Burns of Long Beach; step-son, Harvey Burns of Fulton; sister, Dorothy Pitts of Columbus; five grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.