Kimble County, TX - Obituaries, Burt, Bessie Allsup, 1988
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The Junction Eagle, December 22, 1988
(with permission of publisher)

                           Bessie Allsup Burt Rites Saturday

  Funeral services for Bessie Lee Allsup Burt, a resident of Kimble County for the past 86
years, were held Saturday, December 17, at Aubrey Fife Funerals Chapel with James Murphy,
minister of the Northside Church of Christ, officiating.  Burial was in Junction cemetery.
  Mrs. Burt died December 15 at Kimble Hospital following a long illness.  A native of Llano
County, born October 20, 1897, she was the daughter of the late Andrew and Margaret Vest Allsup.
They lived in Mason, Menard and Edwards Counties before settling on the South Llano River four 
miles southwest of Junction in 1902.
  She attended the Pepper School on the South Llano and later served as a substitute teacher
there.  Bessie Lee Allsup and John Matt Burt, Jr. were married March 12, 1922, by longtime
Church of Christ minister John S. Durst.  They were parents of five children, all of whom
survive.  Mr. Burt died February 26, 1953.
  Mrs. Burt was a member of the Church of Christ and a twenty-five year member of Kimble County
Historical Commission.  For the past five years she had lived at Leisure Lodge.
  Survivors include three sons, Andrew of Junction, Fane of San Antonio, and Britton A. of
Midland; two daughters, Margaret Gaver and Frederica Wyatt, both of Junction; two brothers,
Robert and H.C. Allsup of Junction; nine grandchildren, four great grandchildren, and a
number of nieces and nephews.
  Pallbearers were Billy T. Clark of Alice, Bill Cunningham, Boyce Hunger, Milburn Pinkerton,
John Evans, and Ray Low.  Honorary pallbearers were W.G. Stephenson of Eden, Hooper Shelton
of Rotan, Alvah Pearl, Ramsey Randolph, Guss Bannowsky, Roy Nelson and N.K. Farmer.
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