Brandie Shaun Burns And Ashton Burns

A memorial service for Brandie Shaun Burns, 26, and her son, Ashton Lee Burns, 7 weeks, will be held at Nobody's Inn on Sunday, at 3 p.m.

Brandie and Ashton died together Oct. 25, 2005, near Wasilla.

Brandie Burns was born April 13, 1979, in Georgia. Ashton Lee Burns was born Sept. 6, 2005.

One of Brandie Burns' friends, who worked with her at Flowers by Louise, said, &#8220She was a little bitty thing who didn't take any guff from anyone.”

Brandie Burns became a certified welder in Georgia, and could also drive heavy equipment, said another friend. She was tired of those jobs, she told her friends, because she had been doing them since she was a little girl. Working at the flower shop was relaxing, and it kept her away from vulgar language she heard on construction sites, she told them.

She charmed people easily with her Georgia accent, loved fragrant purple-hued flowers and had a charisma and sparkle about her, according to friends. She tried to be cheerful and upbeat and didn't allow her co-workers to get a sense of how horrific her life was at home.

One friend remembers Brandie singing, &#8220The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” in a helium-altered voice, for laughs.

&#8220She was a sweet gal,” said Mike Kevan. &#8220We loved her.”

Ashton Lee was the baby Brandie thought she could never have because she had cervical cancer when she was 16.

&#8220She was high on happiness at her miracle baby,” said Connie Burns. &#8220He was her gift from God.”

They are survived by Brandie's mother, Connie Burns; father, Ronnie Lee Burns; brother, Ronnie Lee Burns II; sister, Hope Darley, all of Senoia, Ga., and Ashton's paternal grandparents, Mike Kevan and stepgrandmother, Lorraine, in Wasilla.

Funeral services were held in Senoia, Ga., on Oct. 31, where Brandie and Ashton were buried together.