COURTLAND—Carolyn “Mollie” Lassiter Burgess, 71, died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011.

The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, at Wright Funeral Home, Franklin. Burial will follow at Cool Spring Baptist Church Cemetery, Gates County, N.C.

She is survived by her husband, J.M. “Jimmy” Burgess; daughter, Jeannie P. Ginn of Aulander, N.C.; and son, James Thomas “Jimmy” Parker Jr. of Ahoskie, N.C.

Wright Funeral Home is handling arrangements.