Funeral services for Bobby Dean Burnette, Sr. will be Sunday, July 19 at Young's Funeral Home-Ferriday at 2 PM, officiated by Bro. Dennis Baker and Bro. Dustin Davis. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 12 pm until service time. Interment will follow at New Era Baptist Church Cemetery, under the direction of Young's Funeral Home.
Bobby was born Friday, March 10, 1933 in Waldron, Arkansas and passed away July 16, 2020 in Shreveport, LA. He worked in the oilfield for many years and was the owner and operator of B & B Blasting and Painting. Mr. Burnette proudly served his country in the Army in the Korean War.
He is preceded in death by: parents, Curt and Mamie Burnette; two daughters, Wanda Dianne Burnette and Sharon Kay Lipsey; son, Charles Curtis Burnette; sister, Patricia Burnette Mize and grandson Joseph Terrell.
Those left to cherish his memory, wife, Nelda Flaherty Burnette of Monterey; son, Bobby Dean Burnette, Jr. (Esther) of Many, LA, son, Darron Ray Burnette of Monterey, LA, daughter, Tina Marie New (Stanley Cooper III) of Natchez, MS, two sisters, Billie Jean Foreman of Natchez, MS and Deborah Kay Boyd of Marksville, LA, three brothers, Kenneth Wayne Burnette of Natchez, MS, Delane Delano Burnette of Monterey, LA and Curtis "Junior" Burnette of Natchez, MS. He is also survived by 10 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be R.T. Forman, Roger Mount, Bobby Dean Burnette III, Gavin Burnette, Steven Kodie Brignac, Jeff Burnette, Gerald Flaherty and Tommy Millican.
Honorary pallbearers are Neil Faulkner and Winston Flaherty.
Here lies Bobby Dean,
A sandblasting & painting machine,
Hard work was his motto since he was a young man,
He fought till the end but was delt a tough hand,
He loved his wife Nelda and family but,
loved to be in the woods hunting a deer during rut,
A proud man with a large loving family around,
He was always on the go with no lazy bone to be found,
He survived a sunk boat and bulldozer track,
Gave cancer a long run,
We all know that's a fact,
Bobby was a simple man who cherished his wife & kids,
But always cared for others even those who weren't his,
He had friends far and wide,
Some old and some new but you always could count on him to be true,
Before he lost his battle to his health issues,
He had the staff at the hospital laughing in stitches,
That's him, who he was,
One of a kind,
He will be missed,
But cry not for today is about tall tales,
Of Bobby the war hero & survivor of large ocean swells,
What a man, what a Father, brother and friend,
He had that funny laugh and chuckle up till the end,
How lucky we are to have known this man among men,
He gave it his all up to the very end,
Goodbye for now Bobby,
time to venture on to see Charlie, Sharon & Wanda,
Don't you know they will be so happy to once again see their Father.
Rhonda
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