Louise Dunavin

Funeral services for Louise Dunavin, age 85, of Yantis, will be conducted at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home Chapel, at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 16, 2010, with Rev. Tommy Hall and Rev. Willie Sells officiating. Interment will follow at Seymore Cemetery, with Paul Starrett, Danny Wilson, Donnie Miller, Marvin Churney, David Gulley, Billy Burnett and Don McAfee serving as pallbearers. Scott Rushing and Vernon Ray will serve as honorary pallbearers. Visitation will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home.
Louise Dunavin passed away Monday afternoon, June 14, 2010, at Hopkins County Memorial Hospital. She was born in Yantis on November 27, 1924, the daughter of Elmer Burnett and Artie (Wyatt) Burnett. She married Merritt Dunavin. He preceded her in death in 1985. Mrs. Dunavin was a retired seamstress for H. D. Lee Company.
Survivors include: two sons, Jack Dunavin and Audie Dunavin, both of Yantis; daughters-in-law, Barbara Dunavin of Mesquite, Gay Dunavin of Quitman and Judy Dunavin of Pickton; two brothers, James Burnett and wife, Betty and William Burnett and wife, Louise; sister, Bonnie McAfee and husband, Larry, all of Yantis; grandchildren, April Gammill, Casey Dunavin, Stacey Dunavin Smith, Brian Dunavin, Bruce Dunavin and Kiah Sue Dunavin; seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by two sons, Riley Dunavin and Stanley Dunavin and one sister, Ruby Nell Newsome.