Annie Burns Bayly, loving mother and grandmother, went to be with the Lord Friday, November 23, 2018. She was 101 years old.

Born in Crittenden County, Arkansas, and raised in rural Lincoln County, MS, she was the daughter of Clifton & Annie Bacot Burns of Ruth. She was a graduate of King's Daughter Hospital nursing school in Brookhaven. During WWII she served in the Army as a First Lieutenant with the 237th General Hospital in France receiving 2 bronze stars.

After the Army, she married Robert P. Bayly, of Biloxi, and moved to Jackson. At that time she continued working as a nurse at the VA Hospital in Jackson. Later she nursed at Hinds General Hospital where she retired in 1987. She was an active member of West Jackson Baptist Church and later Midway Baptist.

She is preceded in death by her parents, 3 brothers and 3 sisters, also her husband and her son, Robert Bayly, Jr. of Baton Rouge, LA.

She is survived by her daughter Jane Bonner (Mike) of Jackson and daughter-in-law Phillis Bayly of Baton Rouge, LA; 6 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandson.

Visitation will be Monday, November 26, from 5pm to 7pm at Wright & Ferguson in Clinton, MS. Services will be held on Tuesday the 27th at 11am with visitation beginning at 10am. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Friends of Alcoholics, PO Box 217, Flora, MS 39071, where she volunteered for the last eighteen years.