Wanda Celeste Burr

A funeral service celebrating the life of Wanda Celeste Burr, 67, will be held at 10:00 AM, Saturday, July 2, 2022, at Kilpatrick’s Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Coushatta with Pastor Andy Whitten officiating. Interment will follow in Hickory Grove Cemetery in Coushatta. The family will receive friends from 9:00 AM prior to service time. 

Wanda was born on August 24, 1954, in Augusta, GA to Lee and Sarah Erdean Taff Kerby and passed away June 25, 2022, in El Dorado, AR.

After graduating from Lavaca High School, she relocated to Coushatta, Louisiana with her parents and siblings. There she became a devoted homemaker to her five children.  Wanda spent her final years living in El Dorado, Arkansas, and enjoyed spending time with her family.  She will be remembered as a generous and caring, daughter, sister, friend, and mother.

She was preceded in death by her parents and sisters, Julia Dawn Kerby and Michelle Irene Kerby.

Left to cherish her memory are her three sons, Jesse Burr and wife Amanda of Chest Springs, PA, Jeremy Burr of El Dorado, AR; and John Burr of El Dorado, AR; two daughters, Rachel Lange and her husband Brad Lange of El Dorado, AR  and Sarah Burr and her late husband Leland Posey of Coushatta, LA; and 10 grandchildren Jakobe Lange, Addison Lange, Bailey Lange, Joseph Guy, Rebecca Guy, Faith Posey, Deanna Posey, Leland Posey, Jr., Kyrie Burr, and Brinley Burr, and her first great-grandchild, Amelie McCorkel. And siblings, Susan Bamburg and husband Brannon Bamburg of Coushatta, LA, Larry Kerby and wife Arlene Kerby of Coushatta, LA, Gary Kerby of Coushatta, LA, and Eugene Kerby and wife Hope Kerby of Saline, LA.

Those honored to serve as pallbearers will be John Burr, Jesse Burr, Brad Lange, Daniel Hudson, Tyler Egbert, Brandon Womack, Leland Posey, Jr., and Jakobe Lange.

In lieu of flowers, please make memorials to the Salvation Army of El Dorado, AR.