Harriet Burck's obituary, Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan

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Obituary - Monroe Evening News - date unknown

        Mrs. Burck
        Dies in East

Mrs. Harriet Bell Burck, 81, of 301 S. Macomb St. died at 11
this morning in Clifton Springs Sanatorium, N. Y.; where she
had been since suffering a heart attack two weeks ago.  She
and her daughter, Mrs. E. F. Lautner of South Monroe Townsite,
were visiting Mrs. Lautners son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Griswold at Clifton Springs, when she suffered the
attack.

A memorial service will be Tuesday in St. John's Episcopal
Church of Clifton Springs.  The body will be cremated.  The
Well Funeral Home of Clifton Springs will be in Charge of
arrangements.

The Daughter of Pierce and Virginia McCleskey, she was born
Sept. 19, 1878, at Omaha, Neb.  Her marriage to Christian A.
Burck was March 7, 1904 at Dallas, Tex.  They spent five years
in Argentina where Mr. Burck was chief chemist for
International Portland Cement Co.

They came to Monroe in 1922.  Mr. Burck was owner of the
Monroe Steam Laundry and co-owner of the Monroe Linen Supply
at the time of his death June 13 1956.

Mrs Burck was a member and past worthy matron of Monroe
Chapter 226, Order of the Eastern Star, and a member and past
regent of Nancy DeGraff Toll Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution.  She is survived by her daughter, Mrs.
Lautner of Monroe; her granddaughter, Mrs. Griswold, and a
great-great-granddaughter, Jan Griswold.