Mekayla Victoria Burns Howard, 22, of Kountze died Wednesday, March 29, 2017. She was born on January 9, 1995, in Evanston, Wyoming, to Jeannie Skinner Howard and John Burns.
Survivors include her father, John Burns and his wife, Sonia, of Kountze; mother, Jeannie Howard and her husband, Scott, of North Dakota; siblings, Melinda Hacklin and her husband, Robert, of Big Piney, Wyoming; Melissa Schaeffer and her fiancé, Jeremiah Konop, of Dickinson, North Dakota; Jamie Chatman and her husband, Wesley, of Logansport, Louisiana; Timothy Burns and his fiancé, Nacona Choate, of Houston; and Kelsi Burns and Colin Burns, both of Kountze; grandparents, Bonnie Skinner of Labarge, Wyoming and Barbara Seale of Rupert, Idaho; and numerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her grandfathers, Lem Victor Burns and Marcus Skinner.
A gathering of Mekayla’s family and friends will be from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Friday, April 7, 2017, at Broussard’s, 490 Cemetery Road, Silsbee. Her funeral service will be 11:00 a.m., Saturday, April 8, 2017, at Broussard’s. Interment will be held at a late date at Viola Cemetery in La Barge, Wyoming.
