Died 22 February 1965

Published in Enterprise on 25 February 1965

ELI BURKE DIES IN OKLAHOMA

Mr. Eli Burke, 84, father of Buck Burke and Mrs. Roy Brown of Blair, died at Shawnee, Oklahoma last Monday, February 22. He resided in Omaha until four years ago when he moved to Oklahoma.

Funeral services will be held at the Dworak Mortuary in Omaha Friday at 2 P.M. and he will be buried beside his wife, who passed away in 1955.

He is survived by his son, Buck Burke, and daughter, Mrs. Roy Brown (Lois), two grandchildren, Sally Burke of Omaha and Tim Brown of Blair. Also three brothers and one sister.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~