MARVIN BURKE
1916-1959
Marvin Burke, 43, resident of West Van Lear, died Thursday at 1:30
a.m., in the Veterans Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, following an
illness of three years.
The son of Mrs. Emma Arms Burke and the late Harrison Burke, he was
born in this city June 7, 1916, and had resided at West Van Lear for
the past sixteen years.
He was a veteran of World War II.
Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Oliver Shields and Miss Mabel Burke,
both of Richwood; Mrs. Everett Bowling, Van Lear; a stepsister, Mrs.
Homer Hale, East Point; two brothers, Harold Burke, West Van Lear; Elmo
Burke, Maysville.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 2:00 p.m., from the West Van
Lear Missionary Baptist Church with Howard Reuter and Johnnie Sammons
as officiating ministers.
Burial was in the Cumbo Cemetery at West Van Lear.
Paintsville Herald
Wednesday
9-9-1959
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