Funeral Arrangements Planned for Pinckney Woman Killed in Bicycle Accident in Dexter Township

Funeral services to celebrate the life of Mary Burrows, 53, of Pinckney, will take place at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Staffan-Mitchell Funeral Home in Chelsea.

Burrows died on Tuesday after a near the intersection of Dexter-Pinckney and North Territorial roads.

Burrows was riding southbound and stopped to rest in a ditch on the northwest corner of the Territorial and Dexter-Pinckney intersection at about 6:04 p.m. Tuesday. After resting, she re-entered the roadway against traffic and was hit by a Chelsea man driving a 2002 Mercury Sable westbound on Territorial, according to the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office.

Burrows was the manager of Chemical Development at Thetford Corporation in Scio Township, and would have celebrated her 54th birthday on Saturday.

Burrows is survived by her husband, Robert W. Burrows; two daughters, Kristin Burrows of Pinckney and Sara O'Keefe of Austin, Texas; two brothers, James Ruble of Grosse Pointe and John Ruble of Chicago; and one grandson.