Josie Faye Burns

Josie Faye Burns, age 78, passed away Saturday, June 28, 2025 at the Baptist DeSoto Hospital in Southaven, Mississippi. 

Funeral services for Josie will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 3, 2025 in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with the interment to follow at Forrest Memorial Park in Batesville, Mississippi. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. 

Josie was born on January 4, 1947 to the late Marvin Cleytus and Nancy E. Couch Grisham in New Albany, Mississippi. She worked at Piper Impact in New Albany for many years. 

The family she leaves behind includes her daughter, Amanda Burns Davis; four brothers, Clayton Grisham, Jimmy Grisham, Johnny Grisham, and Tommy Grisham; three sisters, Ruth Scates, Virginia Marcy, and Sharon Yarbro; two grandsons, Austin and Douglas Middleton; and two great granddaughters, Kensley Rae and Paisley Jo Middleton, who were the light of her life. 

She is preceded in death by her husband, Tommy Lee Burns; and two brothers, Marvin Thornton Grisham and Lonnie Grisham.