Carroll M. Burns

Car­roll M. Burns, age 89, of Mount Gilead, died peace­fully Mon­day morn­ing, Octo­ber 22, 2012, at the Wood­side Vil­lage Care Cen­ter fol­low­ing a two year bat­tle after suf­fer­ing a stroke.

On Decem­ber 16, 1922, Car­roll was born in Mor­row County, Ohio, the son of the late James and Ethel (Karr) Hillis. He was raised by Ray­mond and Mabel (Wells) Burns from the time he was 9 years old. He was raised in the Chester­ville area, where he grad­u­ated from Chester­ville High School in the Class of 1941.

Shortly fol­low­ing his grad­u­a­tion, Car­roll enlisted in the U.S. Army to help his fel­low coun­try­men in the fight of World War II. He earned sev­eral medals and rib­bons for his time in the Amer­i­can, European-African-Middle East­ern The­ater and Asi­atic ˆPacific Theaters.

Upon his hon­or­able dis­charge, Car­roll returned home to Mor­row County, where he was set up on a blind date with a friend and two young women, one of them being Janet Fis­sell, whom he quickly took a lik­ing to. Soon there­after they were mar­ried on Octo­ber 19, 1947, in the par­son­age at the Kirk­patrick United Methodist Church by Rev. Bosler. They have cher­ished their 65 won­der­ful years of mar­riage together.

For over 20 years, Car­roll worked help­ing to build large machin­ery at the H.P.M. Cor­po­ra­tion in Mount Gilead. Later, he trans­ferred to the Mar­ion Power Shovel, where he worked as an assem­bler for eleven years, until his retire­ment in 1984.

A man of faith, Car­roll was a mem­ber of the Edi­son United Methodist Church. He also was a mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Legion Post 97 in Cardington.

Good with his hands, Car­roll could make or fix just about any­thing. He espe­cially enjoyed work­ing on engines and work­ing with wood, mak­ing gifts for his wife and children.

With a love for trav­el­ing, Car­roll and Janet took as many bus trips as they could with the Seniors on Cen­ter in Mount Gilead and First Knox Bank to places like Bran­son, Mis­souri. They also loved spend­ing time in their camper as a V.I.P. at the State Lakes Camp­grounds in Mt. Gilead and at Lake Erie.

A com­pet­i­tive card and board game player, Car­roll loved play­ing these games with his fam­ily and friends, but was well known for being a sore loser if things weren‚t going his way.

An ornery fel­low, Car­roll was a fun lov­ing “kid­der” who truly had his own unique sense of humor.

He will be dearly missed by his wife, Janet Burns of Mount Gilead; four chil­dren: Sheila (John) Pagani of Galion, Car­roll “Gene” (Margie) Burns of Johnsville, Vicky (Deo) Ault of Cale­do­nia, and Bev­erly (Bud) High of Card­ing­ton; eleven grand­chil­dren: Michelle (Kevin) Maley, Lisa Zeisler (Marty Kohls), Tia Pagani (Cindy Mar­vin), Gin­ger (Mike) Schwaigert, Jeremy (Car­rie) Burns, Kel­lie (Josh) Evans, Melissa (Jason) Radel, Andrea Ault, Shanna (David) Smith, Cory High, and Ryan (Darci) High; 25 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild with more on the way; two step grand­chil­dren, Rob and Roxy Tiller; one step great grand­son; a sis­ter, Alberta Steele of Galion; and numer­ous nieces and nephews.

Includ­ing his par­ents, Car­roll was pre­ceded in death by his grand­daugh­ter, Kristin Burns; and by five broth­ers and three sisters.

Ser­vices hon­or­ing Carroll’s life will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Fri­day, Octo­ber 26, 2012, at River­cliff Ceme­tery in Mount Gilead, with Pas­tor Matt Skel­ton offi­ci­at­ing. Mil­i­tary hon­ors will also be pro­vided by the V.F.W. Post 8054 and AmVets Post 87.

Memo­r­ial con­tri­bu­tions may be made to the Edi­son United Methodist Church, 335 S. Bound­ary St., Edi­son, OH 43320.

Sny­der Funeral Homes of Mount Gilead is hon­ored to have been cho­sen to serve Carroll‚s fam­ily and your pri­vate con­do­lences may be expressed to them online by vis­it­ing www.snyderfuneralhomes.com.

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