In the Early Morning Hours of June 29, 2017, Ms. Virginia Starr transitioned to early Rest in Tulsa.

Services will be Saturday July 8, 2017 at 10AM inside Biglow's All Faiths Chapel in Tulsa.

Friends may visit Mrs. Starr on Friday from 1PM until 7PM in Tulsa.


Virginia Kay Starr was born April 23, 1941 in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. She was the youngest of 4 and the only daughter of Robert and Leota Redmond. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where she was raised and later met and married John Walter Burrell. They were raising their 6 children until the marriage dissolved. In 1973, she married Tommy Starr. Together they relocated their blended family to Tulsa, Ok. They purchased a home in the historic Brady Heights district of Tulsa. Determined to provide her family a safe and stable place to live drove her to become an active and instrumental part in the clean up of their crime infested community. Being a mother of 10, fostered a desire to be a role model, and further her education in order to teach our youth. She attended Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Ok where she majored in Special Education. Although she enjoyed teaching elementary English to special needs children, she discovered her true passion working with the developmentally disabled as a Habilitation Training Specialist. She worked at Central States Community Services for many years before retiring in 2006 due to illness. She was faithful servant of God with a fighting spirit. For years she defied her physicians that said on several occasions that the illness would "soon" get the best of her. She decided on June 29, 2017 to go home and join her Heavenly Father. She was proceeded in death: by her father Robert Redmond, mother Leota G. Richardson, brothers Charles Taylor, Robert & Gary Redmond, daughter Morning Starr, grandson Deandre Burrell, and granddaughter LaDonna Kay Burrell. She is survived by her children: John, Leota, Elizabeth, Karen, Leon wife Shyra and Robert Burrell, Shawn, Dawn and Sheila Starr. Her 42 grandchildren, and a host of great grandchildren, nephews and nieces.