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James C. "Jim" Burris Jr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal January 6, 1999

Funeral services for Mr. James C. "Jim" Burris Jr., age 54, of Tallulah, were held at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, 
Jan. 3, at the chapel of Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home with the Revs. Jerry Don Burris and Ferreolus D'Cruz 
officiating. Burial followed in Memorial Park Cemetery in Tallulah.

Mr. Burris died Friday. Jan. 1, 1999, in the St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe after a lengthy illness.

He was born in St. Joseph. La. and had lived in Tallulah for most of his life. He was a Marine Corp veteran 
of Vietnam and was a retired U.S. Postal Service employee and was a member of the Catholic faith.

He was preceded in death by his father, James Clarence Burris Sr. and his brother, William Otis "Billy" Burris.

Survivors include his wife. Dora Taylor Burris of Tallulah: his mother, Dorothy Mae Burris of Tallulah: two sons, 
James C. Bums III and Brian Keith Burris, both of Monroe: and four sisters, Ruby Melugin of Gurdon. Ark., 
Bobbi Post of St. Paul. Minn., and Lorene Mathews and Jewel Ghrigsby, both of Tallulah.

Pallbearers were R.B. Reece, Ricky Meadows, Nolan Taylor, Frank Taylor, Jack Taylor and Eddie Mize.

Honorary pallbearers were Tallulah Postal Service employees. 

Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home was in charge of arrangement.

Also From Tallulah Madison Journal January 6, 1999

To all the people in Tallulah that know the Burris family:

I would like to acknowledge that James C. "Jim" Burris, Jr.'s other survivors include his mother, Dorothy Burris, 
and two other sisters, Rose Williams of Wewoka, OK and Wanda Whitley of Tallulah. This is written in respect to 
James C. "Jim" Burris, Jr.'s mother who is not deceased. 

He also was preceded in death by his father, James C. Burris, Sr. and his brother, William Otis `Billy" Burris.

I. Ruby Melugin, would not have wanted to be listed as a survivor if all of the surviving members were not listed 
especially my mother. This pertains to the obituary written in The Vicksburg Post on January 2, 1999.

All our parents wanted was a decent place to live and a peaceful family in their last remaining years. We will continue 
to take care of our mother without the help of the survivors listed from Tallulah. We do not appreciate you for 
destroying our mother as she can still read and did read the obituary in The Vicksburg Post.