Freestone County, Texas
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The Fairfield Recorder newspaper
Thursday, September 7, 2006

Judi (Bell) Burnett

Funeral services were held Saturday in Corsicana for Judi (Nana) Burnett, who 
died at her home Tuesday, August 29 after a long battle with cancer.

Mrs. Burnett was the owner of Missy’s Little People Shoppe in Corsicana.  She 
was born January 4, 1945 in Houston to W.J. and Catherine Bell of Houston.

Services were conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home 
Chapel, with B.F. Risinger officiating.  Burial was at Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery.

She is survived by her husband of 43 years, Johnny Burnett; a son and daughter-
in-law Jack and Barbara Burnett of Goodyear, Arizona; a daughter and son-in-law 
Michell and Brian Tibbits, also of Goodyear; A sister and brother-in-law David 
and Janet Pelc of Pearland; sisters-in-law Evelyn Reeves and Inez Burnett of 
Fairfield; Grandchildren Kati Tibbits of Corsicana and Ryan, Nathan and Rachel 
Burnett of Goodyear; and numerous other family members and friends.

She considered her Sunday school class friends to be sisters in Christ and 
wanted them listed as such: Marianne Anderson, Barbara Batson, Theda Brashear, 
Irene Davenport, Nelda Davis, Linda Fannin, Louise Ford, Lillian Goodnight, 
Nedra Hooser; June Ingham, Nell Laswell, Melba Lennon, Jan Risinger, Kathie 
Mitcham, Mary McCarley, Judy Niemann, Mary S. Smith, Freddie Summers and Yvonne 
Wagner.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her grandparents Ira and Lucy Rushing 
and James and Maggie Bell; and a granddaughter, Taylor Marie Tibbits.