Betty Faye (Lessel) Burrows

Betty Faye Lessel Burrows, age 83, resident of Moscow, Tennessee, departed this life Tuesday evening, May 26, 2020 at Methodist LeBonheur Germantown Hospital.

Betty was born June 21, 1936 in Blue Springs, Mississippi, daughter of the late Herschel Lessel and Louvena Dunlap Lessel. She received her education in Ecru, Mississippi and was employed as a packaging operator for Kellogg’s in Memphis, Tennessee for many years before her retirement in 1993. Betty was a resident of Moscow since 1972 and a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church where she sang in choir and was a Sunday School teacher. She enjoyed flower gardening, sewing and showing miniature horses.

Ms. Burrows is survived by her daughter, Donna Davis (Johnny) of Moscow, TN; her son, Norris Roberts (Judy) of Slayden, MS; three sisters, Linda Looney, Judy Lessel and Ola Joyner; two brothers, Hulon Lessel and Ray Lessel; eight grandchildren, Clay, Christy, Scott, Chris, Shana, Brad, Brandy and Johnny; and sixteen great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Kenneth Lessel.

Funeral Services for Ms. Burrows were held at 4 P.M. Thursday, May 28, 2020 at the Peebles Main Funeral Chapel in Somerville with Bro. David Parlow, pastor of Oak Grove Baptist Church in Moscow, officiating. Interment followed in the Perry Cemetery at Laconia.

Those honored to serve as pallbearers were Clay Joyner, Johnny Davis, Scott Roberts, Chris Roberts, Stephen Roberts and Brad Hudson.

The family requests that memorials be directed to Perry Cemetery Association, c/o Carol Glover, 7050 Highway 76, Somerville, TN 38068.