Gillis-Funeral service for Mary Earline Burgess, age 59, will be held at First Pentecostal Church of Gillis at 3 p.m. on Friday, February 27, 2015. Rev. V. Joey Ethridge will officiate. Burial will follow in Magnolia Cemetery of Ragley under the direction of Ardoin Funeral Home of Kinder.
The family will receive visitors on Thursday evening, February 26, 2015, from 6-10 p.m. at First Pentecostal Church of Gillis. Visitation will resume on Friday morning at the church from 9 a.m. until time of service.
Those left to cherish Mary's memory include her husband-Randal Burgess; two sons-Shannan Scott Trahan and William Keith Leblanc and wife, Jessica; seven brothers-Jessie Lloyd Spears and wife, Marie, Daniel Augustus Spears and wife, Brenda, Richard Pierre Spears and wife, Sheila, John James Spears and wife, Peggy, Gerald Spears and wife, Mary, Arthur Spears and wife, Jolynn, and Paul Spears and girlfriend, Carolyn; and special nieces, Bridgette Paige Perkins and Janna LaKatherine Spears.
Mary is preceded in death by her parents, Jesse and Katherine Spears; and two brothers, William Monroe Spears and Donald Wayne Spears.
Words of comfort may be sent to the family at www.ardoinfuneralhome.com