Mary Betty Burgess

Funeral Services for Mary Betty Burgess, 85 of Baxter will be Wednesday, Sept. 5 at 1 P.M. from the Baxter Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home with burial in Smellage Memory Gardens in the Boma Community. Bro. Herb Leftwich and Harold Ralph Maynard will officiate. Mrs. Burgess died Sunday morning, September 2, 2012 at Riverview Regional Medical Center in Carthage, TN. She was born November 28, 1926 in the Buffalo Valley Community of Putnam County to the late Sam D. and Hattie Mae Russell Sullins. She was a homemaker and a member of Baxter First Baptist Church. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by husband Burnest Burgess, daughter Patty Burgess, sister Sue Minton, two brothers J.B. and K.D. Sullins. Survivors are daughters Lois Hargis of Sparta, Susan West of Interlachen, Fl., Lisa Anderson and Penny Burgess both of Baxter, Sons Gene Bellar of Gainesboro, James Bellar and Russell Bellar both of Peru, IN, Bill Johnson of Lebanon, Lonnie Burgess of Baxter, Dwight Burgess and Doyle Burgess both of Peru, IN and J.D. Burgess of Baxter, sister Reba Hancock of Silver Point, 24 Grandchildren, 29 Great-Grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild. Family will receive friends Monday from 5 to 8 P.M., Tuesday 9 A.M. to 8 P.M. and after 9 A.M.Wednesday at the funeral home. Family & Friends will serve as pallbearers.