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May 30, 2012
In Loving Memory
George Lee Burris Sr. was bom
Jan. 15, 1944 to Curtis Burris and
Maggie Stapleton-Burris, in Fayette,
Mo. He was the fifth of their nine
children. In 1953 the family moved to
Springfield 111., where they became
strongly rooted and settled. M any
generations of the Burris family still
live in Springfield, which is commonly
referred to as the fam ily's hometown.
He attended Withrow Elementary
School and George W ashington Jr.
High in Springfield. At the age of 15,
he discontinued his education to stay
home and assist with raising his three
younger brothers.
At the age of 16, he married Sharon
Jones and together they had three
sons. At 19, he met his current wife
Barbara, and in 1964 they moved to
Great Falls, Mont, where they married
and grew their family with two daugh
ters. While in Montana he worked as
a cook at the Air Force base and later
George Lee Burris Sr.
at Columbia Hospital. In 1970,
with his opening line of, ‘T he
they loaded all their belong
Chicken’s in the bam yard.”
ings in a 12-foot U-Haul
The Burris’ loved RV ’ing
trailer, put their daughters in
and cam ping. George and
the car and made the scariest
Barbara were members of the
drive of their lives through
Ebony Rose RV Club. They
the LoLo pass of Montana
enjoyed many outings with
as they relocated to Portland.
club m em bers, including trips to
He took a jo b a s'a cook at Good Yellowstone National Park, beaches,
Samaritan Hospital, and in 1974, he and numerous local and national ral
started working for Portland Public lies. RV ’ing and camping fit perfectly
Schools in the maintenance depart with his favorite past time of fishing.
ment where he worked for 28 years George Burris loved fishing. He had
before retiring in 2002. While in Port so many favorite fishing holes. One
land, the family grew to include two of his favorite places to fish was the
more children.
Powder River in Richland, Ore., but
George had a number of different for the most part, his favorite fishing
hobbies. In the early 70’s he became hole was the one where the fish were
a part-time chicken farmer, raising 300 biting. The past few years included
chickens on a small farm off Dixie many breakfasts with the ROMEO
Mountain Road. It was this hobby (Retired Old Men Eating Out) Club.
that created his nickname and CB
George leaves behind his wife
handle “Chicken George’’. He spent Barbara o f 48 years, sons George Jr.
many years talking on his CB radio (wife Sheri) of Vancouver, Larry o f
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Decatur, 111., Andre (wife Ellen) of
Decatur, and Llord (wife Kawanna)
o f Portland; daughters Margaret of
Portland, Brina o f Portland, and Fran
W illiam s o f H ouston T exas; 12
grandchildren and two great grand
children; sisters Helen Dickerson of
Springfield, Mary Gilbert o f Spring-
field, and Barbara Hollins o f Apple
Valley, Calif.; brothers Curtis Burris
o f Portland, and John B urris o f
Tacom a.
Preceding him in death were his
parents; sister Cordillia Goodwin, and
brothers Lloyd Burris and Jam es
Burris.
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