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Bessie Lee (Boyce) Burnett

Bessie Lee (Boyce) Burnett, 75, died Thursday. Born August 6, 1939 in San Jose, California a daughter of the late Archie and Hattie Mae Anderson Boyce. Bessie was a member of the Cross Point Ministries in Beebe and enjoyed yard sales, camping, fishing, playing cards and spending time with her family. Survivors: Children, Eva Fisher (Jon), Walter Harold Gilbert (Brenda), Harold Gene Gilbert (Debra), Kathleen Sapp (Jack), Earnest Lee Gilbert, Charles Lynn Gilbert, Robert Leonard Gilbert, Jessica Marie Hale (John) and James David Ray Wooten (Amy); brother, Archie Boyce, Jr.; 25 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by grandchildren, Cody Allen Wooten and Alec William Mitchell Allison; great-grandchildren, Madison and Landon Howard; brothers, Jack, Dallas, Leon, Jimmy, Lloyd and Charlie Boyce; sisters, Cordie Boyce, Alice Elliott, Betty Votaw and Clara Ford. Visitation: Saturday, 6-8 p.m. Services: Sunday, October, 19, 2014, 3 p.m., Powell Funeral Chapel. Interment: Velvet Ridge Cemetery by Powell Funeral Home, Bald Knob-Judsonia. www.powellfuneralhome.net.

Published October 18, 2014

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