Funeral services for Mrs. Dorothy Lee Burns will be on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) in Brookhaven, MS at 11:00 AM with burial to follow in the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery in Brookhaven, MS. Bro. Pat Sullivan will be officiating the services with Brookhaven Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements. Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, from 9:00 AM until 11:00 AM.

Mrs. Burns, 89, of Brookhaven, MS, passed from this life on April 30, 2017, at her residence with her loving family by her side. She was born on March 8, 1928 in Lincoln County, MS, to Ruben Smith and May Belle Coon Smith. She was retired as a salesperson/ bookkeeper at Smart-N-Thrifty/ Dress For Less dress store. She enjoyed her family, walking and her work. Mrs. Burns was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend.

Preceding her in death were her parents; the Father of her children, Paul Charles Burns; infant son Ruben Burns.

Survivors are her daughters, Margaret Marbury and husband Jimmy, Linda Ainsworth and husband Donald; sons, Charles Burns and wife Diane, Danny Burns; grandchildren, Melissa Rhodus, Randy Watts, Ben Burns, Jeff Ainsworth, Kala Watring; 9 great grandchildren; 2 great great grandchildren; sisters, Mary Lou McDavid, Lucille Stewart and Joyce Jordan; and a host of family and friends.

In lieu of flowers, memorials in Dorothy Lee Burns name may be made to: Compassus Hospice, 120 West Cherokee St., Brookhaven, MS 39601.