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Death

KANNAPOLIS Mr. Floyd "Butch" Eugene Burnett, Sr., 68, passed away Thursday, April 5, 2012 at Carolinas Medical Center. A funeral service will be held at noon, Monday, April 9, at Lady's Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Marler Starnes will officiate. Interment will follow at West Lawn Memorial Park in China Grove. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. to noon, Monday, prior to the service. Mr. Burnett was born Nov. 25, 1943 in Cabarrus County. He was the son of Murry Lee Burnett and Ruth Caroline Furr Burnett. He retired from Fieldcrest Cannon Mills as the supervisor of the weave room at Plant #4. Including his parents, he was preceded in death by his son, Floyd Eugene Burnett, Jr.; sister, Elizabeth Ann Starnes; and brother, Melvin Lee Burnett. Mr. Burnett is survived by his wife of 50 years, Toni Nicholson Burnett; daughter, Anita Brock and her husband, Dale of Kannapolis; grandchildren, Amber Brock Faulkner and her husband, Jason, Keisha Brock and Floyd E. "Tripp" Burnett, III; great-grandchild, Peyton Faulkner; and brother, Earl L. Wayne Burnett and his wife, Pat of Kannapolis. Lady's Funeral Home & Crematory is assisting the family of Mr. Burnett.
Concord & Kannapolis Independent Tribune, Concord, North Carolina, April 8, 2012