{"id":44672,"date":"2024-07-10T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=44672"},"modified":"2024-07-09T15:16:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T19:16:22","slug":"helen-burgess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=44672","title":{"rendered":"Helen Burgess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Helen Burgess, 93, passed away on July 3, 2024, in Perry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was born March 18, 1931, in Randolph County, Ala., to Roy Dodson and Ellie Morrison Dodson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen was a Baptist. She worked with the Taylor County School System as a secretary for more than 30 years. She loved her family and her grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was preceded in death by: her parents, Roy Dodson and Ellie Morrison Dodson; her husband of 63 years, C.T. Burgess; her son, Mark Burgess; two sisters, Lucy Tracey and Bobbie Cotton; and her brother, Clellan Dodson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helen is survived by: four sons, Terry, Chris, Kim and Val Burgess; two daughters, Teresa Jackson, and Jan Sheets; two sisters, Margie Craft and Dinah Lee; seven grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren; as a well as a host of nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Private services were held on Friday July 5, at Burns Funeral Home with Brother David Stephens officiating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All arrangements are under the direction of Burns Funeral Home of Perry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friends may sign the online guest book at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joepburnsfuneralhomes.com\/\">www.joepburnsfuneralhomes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Burgess, 93, passed away on July 3, 2024, in Perry. She was born March 18, 1931, in Randolph County, Ala., to Roy Dodson and Ellie Morrison Dodson. Helen was a Baptist. She worked with the Taylor County School System as a secretary for more than 30 years. She loved her family and her grandchildren. [&hellip;]<\/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-44672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44672","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=44672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44673,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44672\/revisions\/44673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}