Anne Snow Burns Wright, of Florence, peacefully passed away Friday, April 3, 2015, attended by her daughters and family. She was blessed to have lived for 95 years and 5 months.
Visitation will be Tuesday April 7, 2015 beginning at 2:30pm at Greenview Funeral Home, Florence, with funeral services to follow at 4 p.m. in the funeral home chapel, with Dr. Doy O. Hollman officiating. Burial will be in the Greenview Cemetery.
Mrs. Wright was born at Waterloo, Alabama and grew up in the communities of Elgin Crossroads and Rogersville, AL. She was the eldest of the eight children of Tamsie Ellen Foust Burns and James Oliver Perry Horace Burns. Being a part of a large family, she inherited the love of cooking, gardening, love of visiting and talking with her friends, and caring and volunteering to help others.
She was a loving Mother, devoted homemaker, and an accomplished seamstress and gardener. She also loved to cook, freeze and/or canned vegetable from her own large vegetable gardens, and always had a “green thumb” talent for growing a variety of beautiful flowers. She and her late husband enjoyed gardening, and maintaining both vegetable and flower gardens. People would come by their home driving very slowly to see their well-manicured lawn with numerous varieties of beautiful flowering plants in their spacious flower gardens.
Sharing her love of flowers and making the world a more beautiful place has been one of her lifetime achievements and led her to volunteer to work with the 4-H Club members at Mars Hill Bible School to beautifully landscape the school grounds. She also volunteered to help 4-H Club members with their demonstrations and projects to enter in the 4-H Club Alabama State competitions. With pride and joy, she reminisces often about those wonderful children and their hard work and dedication to their 4-H projects. She also encouraged her daughters to become outstanding 4-H Club members, each winning awards in their respective area of expertise and representing Alabama at the National 4-H Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
For her volunteer work with Retired Senior Volunteer Program, she received the Significant Service to the Community Award. She also received the Woman of the Year Plaque Award for her work with the Lauderdale County Extension Homemakers Club.
Her love for God was the sustaining light in her life. She will be remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and outstanding service to others. A lifelong resident of Lauderdale County, she faithfully attended the Church of Christ congregations at Kilburn and Jacksonburg as long as she was physically able. For many years, it also was the Wright’s pride and joy to provide beautiful floral arrangements for Sunday services for the church members to enjoy.
Mrs. Wright was preceded in death by her loving husband for almost 50 years, John D. Wright; her parents, Tamsie Ellen and Perry Burns; her sisters, Judy Weems, Decatur, AL, Ruby Gooch, Florence, AL, and Lottie Coats; Killen, Al; her brother, Jackie Wayne Burns, Anderson, AL; her son-in-law, George Albert Allen, Madison, AL; and her brothers-in-law Ezra Howard, Lexington, AL, Howard Coats, Killen, AL, J. W. Weems, Florence, AL, J. B. Gooch, Florence, AL; her special extended family member and cousin, Homer Newton (Loraine) Elgin Crossroad, AL; and her wonderful lifetime and treasured friends, Agnes Smotherman, Mr. Lennis Walton, Tug and Eva Call, Troy and Lucille Miles, Ethel and Bill Hollman, Alice and Amos Quillen, and Kiser and Helen Specker.
She is survived by three daughters (a.k.a. her 3 B’s), Brenda Holder (Jack), Killen, AL, Barbara Allen, Madison, and Bonita Hamilton (Michael) Florence; six grandchildren, Kenneth Holder, Gordo, AL, Kevin Holder (Sarah) McCalla, AL, Michael Allen, Madison, AL, Kelly Sims, Madison, AL, Kristy Carter (Adam), Riverdale, GA, and Kayla Thompson, Florence, AL; Great-grandchildren, Parker Sims, Marlee Holder, Sydney Holder, Emma Sims, Nathan Holder, Riley Allen, Wesley Holder, Katelyn Allen, Destini Thompson, and Daymian Kirkman; her brother, James Horace Burns (Elizabeth), Elgin Crossroads; and two sisters, Edith Faye Burns Howard, Lexington/Elgin Crossroads, and Glenda Burns Cox (Ron) Florence, AL; sister-in-law, Wanda Burns, Anderson, AL., and a host of wonderful nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Jackie Holder, Kenneth Holder, Kevin Holder, Michael Allen, Parker Sims, and Adam Carter. Honorary Pallbearers will be Harold Dolan, Michael Jarvis, Peter Williford, Nathan Holder, Riley Allen, and Wesley Holder
Mrs. Wright and her family expresses special appreciation to Peter Williford and the Wheelchair Transportation Shuttle Staff, Florence, AL for their outstanding caring, service, and assistance; her doctors, nurses and caregivers, friends and family during her long and extended illness including: Dr. Michael Mitchell, Nurse Keena Behel Carrell and staff; Dr. Felix Morris and staff; Dr. Mary Frances Werner-Lucky; Caregivers Glaydes Lawson, Vanessa Keenum, Mona Roberson, Vickie Herston, and Sue Muse; AlaCare Hospice staff Susan Kennedy, Nurse Lauran Braxton, and Katrina Finch; and Jacksonburg Church of Christ friends and family who helped with prayers, love, visit, food, and laughter. The Family also wishes to extend a very Special “Thank You” to Della Cook, Mattie Gooch, Myra Arnold, Harold and Myra Dolan, and Doy Hollman for their tireless devotion, constant words of encouragement, and unwavering support for our loving Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother and Sister. She is gone from our lives, but will forever remain in our hearts.
You are invited to sign an online guest book at www.greenviewmemorial.com.
In lieu of flowers, please consider memorials to Jacksonburg Church of Christ Building Fund, 414 CO RD 28, Florence, Alabama 35634, or Mars Hill Bible School, 698 Cox Creek Pkwy, Florence, AL 35630, or American Cancer Society, 104 South Poplar Street, Florence, AL 35630
