Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Burke, Alta B. (Marvin) (Warner) 2002 ************************************************ 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: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net July 28, 2014, 11:59 am Greenville Daily News, 21 Dec 2002 Alta B. Burke, 86, of Belding, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2002, at United Memorial Health Center, Greenville. She was born July 25, 1916, in Cedar Springs, the daughter of Royal M. and Minnie Douglass Marvin. Alta was a loving mother and grandmother. She enjoyed embroidery, playing cards and gardening. She was the family cookie and candy maker and will be greatly missed. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Howard O. Warner, in 1942, her second husband, Delmer Warner Sr., in 1965; her third husband, Levi R. Burke, in 1990; her parents; six brothers, four sons, Michael Warner in 1993, Richard Warner in 2000, Robert Warner and Delmer Warner Jr. in 2001; three sons-in-law, Clarence Scofield Sr., Gary Martin and Martin Gibson. She is survived by her children, Marjorie Gibson of Belding, Virginia and Russell Vawter of White Cloud, Dorothy Martin of Cadillac, Jo-An Kopf of Pennsylvania, Robert R. Warner of Belding, James and Donna Longhurst of Rockford; two daughters-in-law, Ann Warner of Sheridan, Sandra Warner of Maine; 49 grandchildren, 92 great-grandchildren, 36 great-great-grandchildren and three great-great-great-grandchildren; and sister-in-law, Mildred Marvin of Cedar Springs. Funeral services are 1 p.m. today at United Methodist Church, Belding, with Pastor Connie Shatz officiating. Interment is in Rest Haven Memory Gardens. A luncheon will follow the service at the church. Visitation was Friday at Johnson-Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association or Alvah N. Belding Library. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/burke26272nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb