Editing Tommy Burns (Canadian boxer) (section)

== Life after boxing==
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After retirement, Burns promoted some boxing shows. In 1928 he moved to [[New York City]] where he ran a [[speakeasy]]. Although he was wealthy at the end of his boxing career, the [[Wall Street crash of 1929]] and the [[Great Depression]] wiped out his fortune. Burns went to work as an insurance salesman and security guard, among other jobs.

In 1948, Burns was ordained as a minister. At the time of his death, he was an evangelist living in [[Coalinga, California]]. 

He died while visiting a church friend in [[Vancouver, British Columbia]], suffering a heart attack at age 73. Four people attended his burial at Ocean View Cemetery in [[Burnaby, British Columbia]]. He was interred in an unmarked pauper's grave. In 1961 a Vancouver sports writer raised funds to commission a memorial plaque for Burns's grave.