Dorothy Elizabeth Burns, daughter of the late Franklin McLard and Rubie Tankersley McLard, was born on January 7, 1936, in Bloomfield, Missouri, and departed this life on September 21, 2024, at Cypress Point Skilled Nursing in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 88 years.

Mrs. Burns had worked in the cook plant for Hudson Food’s in Dexter and was a former cake decorator for Wal-Mart and Town & Country in Dexter. She was a member of First Assembly of God in Dexter and a resident of Dexter.

On April 1, 1965, in Puxico, Missouri, she was united in marriage to Lee Roy “Red” Burns. Mr. Burns preceded her in death on November 11, 2013.

She is survived by two sons, Roy Burns and Troy Burns both of Dexter, Missouri; by her daughter, Deborah Wilson of Dexter, Missouri; by two sisters, Ruth Worley of Cape Girardeau, Missouri and Patricia Miller of Dexter, Missouri; by eighteen grandchildren, nineteen, great-grandchildren; and many great-great grandchildren.

Othe than by her husband and parents; she was preceded in death by her son, Mike Harris; by her step-son, Dennis Burns; by her step-daughter, Carol Rice; by four brothers, Michael McLard, Ed McLard, Mitchell McLard, and JR McLard and by her sister, Francis McLard.

Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, from 9:30 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. with Rev. Dale Jones officiating. Interment will follow in Hagy Cemetery.