OBIT: Mary Ann (MORRISON) BURKET, 1931, McKee, Blair County, PA

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MRS. MARY ANN BURKET
 
Wife of William Burket, died at her home at McKee this morning at 3.40 o'clock, 
death being attributed to a stroke of paralysis suffered last Tuesday. She was 
born at Ore Hill on May 3, 1859, and resided there and in Taylor township all 
her life until ten years ago when the family moved to McKee. She was united in 
marriage with William Burket of Taylor township in 1873 and to this union ten 
children were born, six of whom survive, Samuel and Gertrude Myra of McKee, 
Harvey of Roaring Spring, George of Reservoir and Mrs. Esther Schuttle and 
Matthew Burket of Toledo, O. Also surviving are the husband, thirty-one 
grandchildren, sixteen great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. Sarah Shade of 
Hollidaysburg. For fifty-one years she was a member of the Albright Church of 
the Brethren in Taylor township, where funeral services will be conducted 
Wednesday morning at 10.30 o'clock, in charge of the pastor, Rev. Jacob Kinsel. 
Interment will be made in the Albright cemetery.

Altoona Mirror, 28 December 1931