"To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
Ms. Lee Audrey ( Burnett/Ransfer) Cohea was born on May 14, 1930 in the City of
Bogalusa to the late Solomen Ransfer and Eunice English. She transition from this
life on July 11 , 2022 peacefully at the age of 92 at Resthaven Nursing home after
a long illness.
Until her health would not allow, she was an active member of Saint Paul AME
Church in Bogalusa. She was a lifelong member and at the time of her passing was
the mother of the Church. As a member and over the years she was a strong choir
member and often sang for weddings and funerals. Her late grandfather "Tom
Pounds" was a founder of the church.
Although born in Bogalusa, she was raised by her father and stepmother the late
Lenora Ransfer in Tucson, Arizona. That's where she gets her love for all things
Mexican and Indian turquoise jewelry. She had an exotic beauty and was often
mistaken for a Mexican girl. As a teenager she went to Mexico with her father and
best friend Westona and was denied reentry by the border patrol, because they
said she was a Mexican Nation. Her father had to travel back to Tucson to get her
birth certificate before she was out allowed reentry.

Although raised in Arizona she often returned to Bogalusa to be around family on
Lincoln Street. Many of her lifelong lessons came from her aunt affectionately
called "Big Mama" the late Lillie Pounds. Many of her critical comments of things
started with "Big Mama said". It was on Lincoln Street, while picking roses, she
met her husband the Late Collie Burnett, Sr of Varnado Louisiana. From that
union, she bore five children, Fortune, Collie, Jr., Brandon, the late Costroma Burnett and Eunice Ransfer.

Lee Audrey lived a full life in service to her family. When her mother passed, she
traveled from Tucson to Bogalusa by car to pick up her siblings (Eugenia, Anthony
and Sherman) to live with her in Tucson. So, she raised eight children as a single
mom after her divorce from Collie Sr.

She gave up her dreams of college (having attended Gambling) and as a poet.
She loved to write poem

"I look at the leaves. It appears that the sun is shining on the leaves, but it is really
the color of the leaves. It is December. The color of the leaves is here. Glow like
red and shine like the sun. Brings back memories long gone beyond."

Upon returning to Louisiana in the 1965, she studied to become a nurse and
worked at Baptist Hospital in New Orleans. That's where she met her lifelong
friend and fellow nurse Ms. Gloria Cordia. Sisters for life. She moved back to
Bogalusa in the late 70's.

She lived a full life and kept smiles on her family and friends faces with her humor
an occasionally slaty language. She was a firm person and took no prisoners. She
believed in hard work and family. She was straight forward and worthy of respect.

She was preceded in death by her mother Eunice English, father Solomon Ransfer,
her beloved Aunt B, Lillie Pounds, her uncle Eusby English. Her uncle Willie Davis,
her sister Eugenia Davis, her brother Sidney Davis, her brother Anthony Davis, her
baby boy Costroma Burnett and former husband Collie Burnett, Sr.

She leaves to cherish her memories, her surviving brother Sherman (Deborah)
Davis of Slidell Louisiana, her oldest son Fortune Kelly Burnett of New Orleans,
Louisiana, Collie Burnett, Jr., of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Brandon Burnett of Atlanta,
Georgia, and daughter Eunice C. Ransfer of New Orleans, Louisiana. Her
grandchildren, Adrian Ransfer, Christian Ransfer, Emily Burnett, Colin Taylor
Burnett, great grandchildren. Ariel, Phoenix, Curtis, Hubert and Cloe.

Her beloved cousins, Calvin and Dorothy Johnson, who were like her children and
provided support over the years. A host of cousins and friends from Bogalusa,
Slidell, Tucson, Atlanta and New Orleans.