Lewis County Herald - Serving Hohenwald, Lewis County Tennessee Since 1898

Mattie Louise Robinson Burns, 86, of Linden passed away Saturday, January 27, 2024. She was born in Orlando, Kentucky to the late George Dewey Robison and Laura Myrtle "Sissie" Leger.

In her early years, she grew up on a tobacco farm. At the age of eighteen, she moved to Dayton, Ohio, where she met the love of her life, T. Sergeant Joseph Burns, USAF. Mattie was a proud military wife who enjoyed the adventure of raising their family in Massachusetts, Tennessee, South Carolina, the Azores, the Philippines, Kansas City, and later settling in Perry County. Besides being a homemaker, Mattie also w...