Boyd County KY Archives Obituaries.....Burke, Mrs. Vida Criswell ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jane Rankin jrankin@mrmicro.net Feburary 22, 2000 Death Claims Mrs. Burke, 43, Rites Monday Catlettsburg- An illness of the past several months resulted in the death Saturday morning at 11:30 0' clock of Mrs. Vida C. Burke, 43, widow of Dr. E. N. Burke and widely known resident of the Lockwood section of Boyd County. Death occurred at her home. Mrs. Burke was born in Grayson County, Ky., January 24, 1904, a daughter of Mrs. Cordelia Bell Criswell and the late David Z. Criswell. She had been a resident of Catlettsburg and Boyd County since 1927. During her residence in this county she had been actively associated with the church and civic life of the community. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church of Catlettsburg, of the Boyd County Homemakers' Association, a member and former secretary of the Board of Advisors of the Pierce Memorial Children's Home, a member of the Board of Directors of the Boyd County Farm Bureau, the Catlettsburg Community Chest, and the Southern Cooperative Association. Surviving are her mother, Mrs. Cordelia Criswell of Litchfield, Kentucky; two daughters, Miss Barbara Burke of Lockwood, Boyd County, and Mrs. Bolyn N. McClung of Deland, Fla.; one grandson, Bolyn N. McClung, Jr., Of Deland; two sisters, Misses Isabella and Edna Criswell, both of Litchfield, Ky., and a brother, Justin Criswell of Covington, Ky. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o' clock in the Missionary Baptist Church, Catlettsburg, with Rev. Dewey H. Jones, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Catlettsburg Cemetery. The body is at the Kilgore-Collier Funeral Home and will remain there until one o' clock Monday when it will be removed to the church. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon today. Notes: Death date was December 13, 1947, source her children. Article: Newspaper, Ashland, Ky. 1947