Muriel Edith Wakeman Burnham Elliott

Published 4:29 pm Monday, October 31, 2016

2nd Timothy 4:7: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.”
Muriel Edith Wakeman Burnham Elliott, 87, of Elizabethton, went home to be with her Lord, Friday, October 28, 2016, at Ivy Hall Nursing Home.
A native of Rochester, N.Y., she was a daughter of the late Leigh Arnold and Louise Abriel Wakeman.
Mrs. Elliott had lived in Elizabethton for a number of years. She was a member of East Side Free Will Baptist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two husbands, Richard Burnham and Wiley Elliott, and one brother, Richard Wakeman.
Survivors include her sister, Moya Draper, Gate City, Va.; her children, Connie Lee (Lonnie) Miller, Elizabethton, Carolyn (William) Johnson, Brockport, N.Y., Evelyn (Terrill) Withers, Rochester, N.Y., Donna (Bob) MacIntyre of North Carolina, Becky (Stan) Fryslie of South Dakota, and Pastor William (Cheryl) Burnham, Sebring, Fla.; and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Funeral services for Muriel Edith Wakeman Burnham Elliott will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, November 2, at East Side Free Will Baptist Church with the Rev. Justin Deaton and Pastor William Burnham officiating. Interment will follow at Happy Valley Memorial Park. Active pallbearers, who are requested to assemble at the church at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, will be Bill Burnham, William Johnson, Bob McMeteyr, Adam Battaglia, Grant Withers, Scott Willis and Stan Fryslie. Honorary pallbearers will be her church family. The family would like to express a special “Thank You” to the staff of Ivy Hall Nursing Home and Sycamore Springs. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Condolences may be sent to the family at our website at www.memorialfcelizabethton.com.
Memorial Funeral Chapel is serving the Burnham-Elliott family.