Charles Burnett

MATTHEWS, Mo. -- Reinterment and memorial service for former Matthews resident Charles Ray Burnett will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield. The Rev. John Goodwin of Hunter Memorial First Presbyterian Church will officiate.

Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee, Mo., is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Burnett was born Sept. 5, 1933, in Alabama, to the late James Bentley and Bertha Price Burnett. He and Emily June Ruff of Sikeston, Mo., were married Dec. 15, 1955. She survives.

He died June 11, 1966, and was interred at Rock Island Arsenal National Cemetery in Rock Island, Ill.

Mr. Burnett was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean conflict.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Robert (Monica) Burnett and Mike (Melodie) Burnett, both of Benton, Mo.; two daughters, Rachel (Wayne) Noe and Mary McDowell, both of Sikeston; three brothers, Frank Burnett of Sikeston, Leaford Burnett of Theodosia, Mo., Earnest Burnett of Galesburg, Ill.; a sister, Ruby McDaniel of Marion, Ill.

Also seven grandchildren, Doyle (Molly) Noe of Sikeston, Jeffery (Brenna) Burnett of Carbondale, Ill., Molly Hawkins, Melissa McDowell, Jeremy (Jessica) Burnett, all of Sikeston, Rachel McDowell of Bloomington, Ind., and Rachel Burnett of Benton; five great-grandchildren, Brylie, Kylie and Ellie Noe, Brooklyn Hawkins and Landon Burnett, all of Sikeston.

He was followed in death by three brothers, Fay, Hershel and Buford Burnett.