Ashton Brian Burns, 14, passed away unexpectedly on February 22, 2020, in Ocala. Ashton was born November\n20, 2005, in Tallahassee to Kenneth Brian Burns and Ashlea Brooke Gilpin Burns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ashton was a student at Hillcrest\nPublic School in Ocala. He was a loving\nyoung man who was always happy and smiling — always! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ashton loved the water, riding side\nby sides, bouncing on his trampoline and swinging on his custom built swing\nset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was preceded in death by his\npaternal grandfather, Jerry Valentine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is survived by:\nhis father, Brian Burns, and step-mother Lori, of Perry; his mother, Ashlea\nBurns, and step-dad, Jeff Chauncey, of Ocala; a step-brother, Jeffrey Sullivan;\nhis paternal grandmother, Charline Valentine, of Perry; his maternal\ngrandparents, Art and Maynette Gilpin, of Perry; his paternal\ngreat-grandmother, Mae Hathcock, maternal great-grandparents, A.B. and Bobbie\nMurphy, and Ed Gilpin, all of Perry; as well as numerous aunts, uncles,\ncousins, other relatives and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Funeral services for Ashton will be\nheld at 11 a.m. on Friday, February 28 at Crosspoint\nBaptist Fellowship with Bro. Eddie\nPridgeon officiating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interment will follow in Pineview\nMemorial Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the\nservice starting at 10 a.m. also at Crosspoint Baptist Fellowship. All arrangements\nare under the care of Burns Funeral Home of\nPerry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friends may send condolences to the family at\nwww.joepburnsfuneralhomes.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ashton Brian Burns, 14, passed away unexpectedly on February 22, 2020, in Ocala. Ashton was born November 20, 2005, in Tallahassee to Kenneth Brian Burns and Ashlea Brooke Gilpin Burns. Ashton was a student at Hillcrest Public School in Ocala. He was a loving young man who was always happy and smiling — always! Ashton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26199,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26198\/revisions\/26199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}