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Wanda Lee Spears Burns age 89 of Bunkie

Funeral services for Wanda Lee Spears Burns will be at 11:00 am on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 in the chapel of Melancon Funeral Home, Bunkie. Burial will follow in the Old Christian Cemetery in Cheneyville under the direction of Melancon Funeral Home.

Visitation will be at Melancon Funeral Home, Bunkie on Wednesday, June 15, 2016 from 8:00 am until service time.

Mrs. Burns, age 89 of Bunkie, formerly of Cheneyville, passed away on Monday, June 13, 2016 at the Bayou Vista Community Care Center in Bunkie. Her nursing career included nursing at the Hair-Carlton Clinic, Bayou Vista Community Care Center and Westside in Cheneyville. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas C. Burns; her parents, Thomas L. and Cammie Elliott Spears; an infant brother and a grandson, Patrick Burns.

She is survived by two daughters, Wanda Gail Daigrepont and husband, Terry, of Cheneyville and Clarice Hooker and husband, Dennis, of Bunkie; a son, Wlliam "Billy" C. Burns, Sr. and wife, Annette, of Pineville; six grandchildren, seventeen great grandchildren and three great, great grandchildren.