Peggy Burnett

Peggy June Hunter Burnett, 84, passed away Saturday, May 22, 2021. She was born Oct. 22, 1936, in Union City, daughter of the Rev. Robert Junius Hunter and Calvina Joyner Hunter Burnett.
Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until noon Friday at White-Ranson Funeral Home. A graveside service will follow at 12:30 p.m. in East View Cemetery, with the Rev. Jim Calhoun officiating.
Pallbearers will be The Sherwood Hills Boys, Skipper White, Tripp Young, Rob Terrell, Al Oliver, close family friend David Townes, and cousin and ring bearer in Mrs. Burnett’s wedding, Robin Wood.
She graduated from high school in Hopkinsville, Ky., and attended Centre College in Danville, Ky., and graduated with a degree in education from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she was a member of the Kappa Delta Sorority.
She married William Perry Burnett Jr. of Union City on Aug. 22, 1958. He died on July 14, 1994.
Mrs. Burnett worked as a teacher but also alongside her husband in their family shoe business, Burnett’s Shoes, where they had stores across Tennessee and Kentucky.
A member of the First United Methodist Church in Union City, she was active in the United Methodist Women and many other committees and service groups within the church, including working on the beautiful needlepoint kneelers for the church sanctuary.
Mrs. Burnett was also a Cub Scout leader, a member of the Union City Jaycettes, earned the Outstanding Young Woman of the Year Award, a member of the Delphian Revue Club, Bridge Club, and served on the Obion County Library board of directors.
She enjoyed traveling the world with her husband as he served as the president of the National Shoe Retailers Association, scuba diving, swimming, making and painting ceramics and reading.
She is survived by her sons, William Perry Burnett III and wife Linda of Union City, Robert Hunter Burnett and wife Donna of Newington, Victoria, Australia; a daughter-in-law, Pam Smith Burnett of Paris; and her son, Clifford Wynn Burnett and wife Becky of Union City. She is survived by eight grandchildren, Perry Benjamin Burnett and wife Sara of Union City, William Lucian Burnett of Union City, Kayla Brooke Burnett of Florida, William Jay Burnett of Paris, Anna Olivia Burnett of Australia, William Burnett of Australia, Braxton Wynn Burnett of Union City and Bryce Andrew Burnett of Union City. She is also survived by two great-grandchildren, Eliza Chan Burnett and Stanford Brower Burnett, both of Union City.
In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her son, John Andrew Burnett of Paris.
The family requests memorials be made to the Obion County Public Library.
Condolences may be sent to the family at the funeral home website: www.white-ranson.com.

Published 5.25.21