Sandra Callender Burch died Saturday, May 8, 2009, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. She was 61.

Mrs. Burch was born in Brookhaven and had been a resident of Vicksburg since 2008. She was a member of Trinity Baptist Church, where her husband serves as pastor.

She is survived by her husband, the Rev. Ronald Burch of Vicksburg; daughter, Kimberly B. Jackson and her husband, Khyle, of Allen, Texas; two grandchildren, Olivia and Landon; her mother, Colleen Callender of Brookhaven; and two brothers, Kenneth Callender and his wife, Joyce, of McComb and Jeff Callender and his wife, Anna, of Jackson.

She was predeceased by her father, Ellis Leroy Callender.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Baptist Church with interment at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Rose Hill Cemetery in Brookhaven. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 tonight at Riles Funeral Home and at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the church.

Pallbearers will be Dorman Leist, Steven McGee, William Cook, Frank Ainsworth, Jimmy Wooten, John Arnold, Barry Beard and Bill Thornton.

Honorary pallbearers will be deacons of Trinity Baptist Church.

The family has requested that, in lieu of flowers, memorials be made to the Trinity Baptist Church Building Fund, 3365 Porters Chapel Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180.