MYRTIS BURRIS

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral for Myrtis Virginia Duke Burris, 77, of East Prairie will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. The Rev. Charles Car will officiate, with burial in the Dogwood Cemetery.

She was born April 2, 1921, at Kewanee, daughter of Hardy Wilson and Daisy Cummings Duke. She married Joseph Wilson Burris on Aug. 31, 1951. He died May 25, 1996.

She had lived in Indianapolis, Ind., for many years and was employed at Bank One for 30 years as a bookkeeper and switchboard operator. She was a member of the Dogwood Methodist Church.

Survivors include three brothers, Cletus Duke of Cypress, Ill., H.W. Duke of Dogwood and Jim Duke of Ocean Springs, Miss.; and two sisters, Alfreda Matthews of Dogwood and Yvonne Mier of Alton, Ill.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister.