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Gladys B. Coleman
(September 25, 1923 - May 1, 2010)

Gladys Jean Coleman, 86, a resident of Summit, died May 1, 2010 at the Mississippi State Veterans' Home in Jackson, Mississippi. She was the first conceived of superfetated twin girls born at home in Arkansas on September 25, 1923 to the late Clifton Curtis Burns and Annie Elizabeth Bacot Burns. After living in various places, the family of nine settled in the Pleasant Hill/Ruth area of Mississippi where her father did various jobs for the local prominent community member Mr. Clifton C Clark. Sharecropping was one of those activities in which the whole family contributed. Breaking for a lunch of a cold biscuit and sliced onion sandwich during a long day of hoeing the cotton was one of the childhood memories Gladys often recalled.

When the US joined the War in 1941, Gladys was eager to join the cause; first as a welder in the Pascagoula Shipyards, then as a member of the Women's Army Corp. Trained as a Medical Technician, she worked at O'Reilly General Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, helping the boys wounded in battle recover. This is where she met her future husband, Homer, who has himself passed only three months ago.

They spent almost 64 years together, farming their little plot and rearing three children. Gladys was also active with the church, Tangipahoa Baptist in Amite County for many years, along with sewing most of her own clothes and caring for her flowers. So abundant were those flowers, that there are many people in these parts and even other states who have benefited from her generosity.

Surviving her are: son Jack Coleman of Summit, MS; daughter and son-in-law Terry and Fred Killingsworth of Summit, MS; son and daughter-in-law Michael and Carol Coleman of Palestine, TX; five grand-daughters Brenda Coleman, Mary Elizabeth Light, and Kendra McCann of Palestine, TX, Krista Melton of Texarkana, AR and Mika Eberhart of McComb, MS; three sisters Julia Burns of Clinton, MS, Ann Bayly of Pocahontas, MS and Grace Meacham of Suffolk, VA; and numerous great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and other family.

She is also preceded in death by three brothers, Rev Edwin Burns of Brookhaven, MS and Lowery Burns and Curtis Burns of Ruth, MS.

Visitation will be Tuesday May 4, 2010 from 5 until 8 PM at Hartman-Sharkey Funeral Home and will continue Wednesday May 5, 2010 from 9 until services at 10 AM in the funeral home chapel. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Bogue Chitto. Rev. Mike Morris will officiate.