Sonja Virginia Burns Hightower-Smith

Funeral service for Sonja Virginia Burns Hightower-Smith will be held at 1:00pm, Saturday, January 14, 2023 in the McRay Funeral Home Chapel.

Sonja Virginia Burns was born February 23, 1940 to JW Burns and Gertrude (Gray) Burns.  She died January 9, 2023.

Sonja married Olen Hightower in 1955 and to this union seven children were born.  Later in life she met and married Monroe Smith.  Sonja worked in nursing homes in the kitchen as a dietary.  She was known as a great cook to everyone.  All of her kids' and grandkids' friends also knew her as their mom/grandma.

She was preceded in death by her husband Monroe Smith; parents JW and Gertrude Burns; brother Kenneth Burns; sister June Flippo, two brothers-in-law Don Keef and Bill Flippo; two sons Stevie Joe Hightower and Baby Boy Hightower; daughter Becky Cheryl Hightower; two sons-in-law Johnny Horton and Johnny Robinson; and great-grandson Kaiden Trotter.

Survivors include son Arthur Olen "Pete" Hightower; daughter Donna Horton; son Kevin Hightower; daughter Sandra Robinson; brother and sister-in-law Coy and Deana Burns; sister Jean Keef; brother Wesley Burns; brother JT Burns; 10 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; several nieces, nephews, cousins and other family members.

Interment will be in the Blanchard Cemetery, Blanchard, OK.  Services are under the direction of McRay Funeral Home.