Mr. Dale Arthur Burrows 77, prominent farmer and rancher of the Wann area, died at 8:44 a.m. on Tuesday at the rural Wann home.

Funeral services for Mr. Burrows will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday in the Wann Community Center. Rev. Charles M. "Mike" McDougan will be the officiant.

Committal prayers and interment will be directed in the Wann Cemetery by the Arnold Moore Funeral Service.

Mr. Burrows will lie in state in the Arnold Moore - Dewey Funeral Home on Wednesday and Thursday where friends may call for their visitation until he is removed to the Wann Community Center for services and final rites on Thursday afternoon.

A memorial in Dale 's name has been established to the Wann United Methodist Church, and those who wish may forward their gifts to the church at P. O. Box 83, Wann, Okla. 74083.

A native of Colorado, Dale Arthur Burrows was born May 18, 1927 at Greeley. He was the son of William M. and Katherine Bessie (Olson) Burrows He began his education in the Greeley, Colorado schools and in 1936 the Burrows family came to Wann, Oklahoma and he completed his education in the Wann Community Schools. He returned to Colorado where he was employed with a Gas Utility Company at Denver and in 1948 he came to the Nowata and Washington County area where he began his longtime farming and ranching interest. He and the former Miss Wilma Lola Stewart were married July 19, 1952 at Dewey and they established their home in the rural Wann area. The Burrows family have been extensive land owners in Washington and Nowata Counties. He had been active in his farming interests until his recent illness and death.

Survivors include his wife, Wilma L. (Stewart) Burrows of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Sharon Louise Finney and her husband, Kurt of Wann and Ms. Carlene Elaine Scott, Bartlesville; his grandchildren, Kole Alan Finney, Kyler Arthur Finney, Chad Allen Scott and Carie Ann Scott; five great grandchildren, Destiny T. Scott, Dakota T. Scott, Taylynn E. Scott, Chase M. Scott and Tyler G. Barnhart; three brothers, Everett William Burrows Caney, Kansas, Harvey Eugene Burrows and Alfred Lewis Burrows both of Wann, Okla.; and a sister, Mrs. Dora May Hines, Carl Junction, Missouri.

Preceding him in death were his father; mother; four brothers, Emmet Allen, Chester R., Howard R. and Gerald Burrows and his sisters, Audrey H. Smith, Florence Ann Franklin and Opal S. Burwell.