Elizabeth Kennan Burns, 87 - The Advocate-Messenger

Elizabeth Kennan Burns, 87 - The Advocate-Messenger

Elizabeth Kennan Burns, educator, corporate director, preservationist, and farmer, died peacefully at her home on Cambus-Kenneth Farm near Danville, Kentucky on July 18, 2025. She was 87. The only child of Englishman Frank Topham and Henrietta Jackson of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Liz (the name she always preferred) was born in Philadelphia, grew up in northern New Jersey, and graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts …