Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Burke, Harry O.  1981
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Marilyn Ransom mlnransom@chartermi.net August 15, 2011, 5:42 pm

The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, November 9, 1981

Harry O. Burke, 84, of 408 Division St., died Saturday afternoon in Ionia 
County Memorial Hospital.  On his retirement July 1, 1972, he had been an 
employee of the Sentinel-Standard for fifty years, as printer, pressman, 
linotype operator, compositor and make-up man, and as mechanical 
superintendent.

Born Feb. 23, 1897, in Ionia, he was the son of John and Elisabeth Heinz 
Burke.  After attending Ionia High School, he became an apprentice in the old 
Standard shop.  After acquiring a trade, he moved to Chicago where he was 
employed as a printer for two years when he returned to Ionia.  He served in 
the U.S. Army during World War I, stationed at Ft. Custer.  He joined the 
Sentinel-Standard “either in 1921 or 1922,” and remained in its employ until 
his retirement at 75 in 1972.

He was married Dec. 11, 1937, in Ionia to Theresa Sarley, who survives.  Also 
surviving are three sons, John of Pekin, Ill, H. Dennis of Marion, Ohio, and 
Terry Barker of Greenville.  Four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren 
also survive, as does a sister, Mrs. Margaret Vreeland of Battle Creek.  

He was a member of the Girard-Horrocks Post of the American Legion in Ionia 
and was an honorary life member of Ionia Elks.

Funeral services will be Tuesday at 1 p.m. from the Leddick Funeral Home, the 
Rev. Henry Dondzila officiating.  Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens.  
The family will be at the funeral home Monday from 7 to 9 p.m..  A memorial 
has been established for the American Cancer Society, in the care of the 
funeral home.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/burke16440nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 2.1 Kb