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Josephine Burton Obituary

?Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Angelus Funeral Home, Los Angeles, for Josephine Burton, Los Angeles, who died Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. Angelus Funeral Home directing. Adams-Buggs Funeral Service announcing.
Mrs. Burton, the daughter of the late Charles and Catherine Barkley Burton and the stepdaughter of Walter Hardwick, was born Aug. 3, 1929.
She joined Friendship Baptist Church and attended Carver High School. In later years, she moved to Los Angeles.
She leaves to cherish many loving memories, three daughters, Cynthia Burton Scales, Los Angeles, Deborah Burton Cooper (Jimmie), Orange Park, Fla., and Regina Burton, Los Angeles; four beloved grandchildren, Joyselyn Scales, Erica Scales, Los Angeles, Mercedes Willis (Rashard), Jacksonville, Fla., and Biance Cooper, Tallahassee, Fla.; four great-grandchildren, Dashai Duncombe, Kharmen, Khaelin and Kobe Davenport, Los Angeles; cousin, Alice (James) Williams, Gadsden; stepsister, Connie Bostick, Gadsden; son-in-law, William Duke Scales, Los Angeles; longtime friend/sister, Elizabeth (J.P.) Johnson, Gadsden; and a host of relatives and many dear friends.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Gadsden Times on Aug. 13, 2010.

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Angenetta Rodgers

August 15, 2010

Pat, May God be with you and yours always!
Love always

Willie Hammock-Timley

August 14, 2010

Pat, May God keep and bless you and your family during this time of sorrow. We all loved your mother.
Willie Lou Hammock-Timley (Southside AL)

margaret [faye] johnson

August 14, 2010

May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.

Nathaniel Underwood

August 14, 2010

In loving memory of a wonderful person. We will love you and miss you always.

David Booker

August 13, 2010

May God's loving hand help heal your sorrow and touch your heart with the Peace only He can give. With Deep Sympathy.

Mary Castleberry & Family

August 13, 2010

Cynthia and family, may we extend our heartfelt condolences to each of you during your hours of sorrow. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path. May He bless and keep you is our continued prayer.

Devon, Evon, Wanda, Darleen, @ JR Bradford

August 12, 2010

To Duke and the Burton family sorry for your loss we will keep you in our prayers

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