Barbara Ann Gundlach was born in Chicago Illinois on 18 April 1938. She would be the only child of Margaret Andrea (Olsen) and Burton George Gundlach. The family of three moved to the Los Angeles suburbs in 1950, and made their home on 112th Street in Inglewood California, across the street from Barbara Ann's Uncle Howard Gundlach, and close to other Aunts and Uncles living in the Lawndale, Hawthorne, and Inglewood area. Barbara Ann (Known to family and friends as Bobbi, or Bobbi Ann) attended Lawndale Elementry, and Lawndale Highschool.In 1954 at a local skating rink in Lawndale she met a young Marine by the name of William Burns, with her parents at her side, and a letter of approval from her grandmother and grandfather Olsen in Chicago in her purse, she married her now former Marine on 23 July 1955 at the home of his brother and sister-in-law (Eugene and Lulu Burns) in Redding, Shasta, California. She was seventeen and he was twenty-three. A 3 year enlistment in the US Army took the newlyweds to North Carolina, and Georgia before they returned home to California eventually settling at 5871 Lime Avenue in Cypress, Orange, California. It was while living in this home that they started their family and where they raised two daughters (Kristen Diane, and Karen Elizabeth). Barbara Ann (Gundlach) Burns passed away on 23 October 1978 at Kaiser Permanente Hospital, Bellflower, Los Angeles, CA. She was just forty years of age. During her lifetime Bobbi Ann Gundlach became the first female executive for Rapidsyn Dana Industrial, was an active member of A.B.W.A. (American Business Women's Assoc.), was both Brownie Troop and Girl Scout Leader, and was an active member or her church. She was a member of the Cypress Twirlers Square Dancing Club, The ELKS Women's Auxillary, and an avid supporter of anything that her children were involved in. She was survived by her husband of 23 years William M. Burns, her two daughters Kristen Diane (11) and Karen Elizabeth (9) her mother and father Burton George, and Margaret Andrea Gundlach, brother and sister- in -laws Arthur and Betty Burns, and Eugene and Lulu Burns, and sister and brother-in-law Lottie Faye (Burns)and George Wheat, 7 Nieces and 2 nephews, and many Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and Friends. She was a light that touched many lives, and the world is a darker place without her.