Ola Jean Burns was born on January 2, 1942, in San Angelo, Texas. She went to meet her maker on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, and is finally at peace.
Service: A private family Celebration of Life will be held in the future.
Memorials: Anyone who wishes to, can make a donation to the Tarrant County Foodbank or Blue Mound Food Pantry in her memory.
Her family lived in and around Ranger, Texas where she graduated from Eastland High School in1959. She was baptized in 1958 at Harmony Baptist Church in Morton Valley, Texas.
After marriage, she relocated to Saginaw, Texas where she lived for the remainder of her life and attended the First Baptist Church of Saginaw and Lake Country Church. She was a full-time stay-at-home mom and oversaw the day-to-day operation of the family horse stables. Her door was always open to whoever needed a place to stay, including her grandchildren, and she was a primary caretaker of her father, Pawpaw Joe. She was affectionately known as “MawMaw Jean” to her many nieces, nephews, and among many of her children’s friends. She always had a house full of food and drinks for all her kids to bring to their friends.
Later, she went to work as a cafeteria worker for the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD. Oh, how she loved the kids! No one was going to go hungry on her watch even if she had to pitch in with her own money for those who couldn’t afford lunch. She adored her family and looked forward to her Stuard family reunion every year. Jean lit up when she was surrounded by her grandchildren and babies. She will be dearly missed.
She is preceded in death by her parents, RL “Joe” and Jackie Stuard of Ranger, Texas, and an older sister, Nina Bell Gray of Houston, Texas.
Survivors: She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Mack J. Burns; daughter, Teresa Burns Zamora and her husband, Lee of Willow Park; daughter, Sheila Lynn Burns of Springtown; son, Darren Todd Burns; grandchildren, Justin Zamora of Aledo, Nicole Zamora of Spring, Brittanee Karbula and her husband, Josh of Saginaw, Bailee Reed of Fort Worth, Bryce Aguirre of Springtown; great-grandchildren, Trulee Greer, Emersyn Macklee Zamora, and Hendrix Karbula; siblings, Georgia Ann Walton and her husband, Charles of Saginaw, Robert “RL” Stuard, Jr and his wife, Sue of Ranger, Claudia Faye “Clyde” Roberts of Austin, Johnnie Jacqueline “Jackie” Cummins of Breckenridge, and Doyle Wayne Stuard of Breckenridge; several cousins, nieces, and nephews. All will remember her as sweet, kind, and funny. Her heart and smile were as big as Texas.