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Burke, Michael 1882 - 1950

BURKE, BYRNES, MCCORMICK, LIDDIARD, SCHULIE, AURORO, GRIFFIN, MESSIER, SWEENEY

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 3/2/2015 at 15:42:41

La Crosse Tribune, La Crosse, Wis., Fri., 14 July 1950.

Waukon- Michael Burke, 68, died Wednesday at his home in Hanover township following an illness of three days.

Burke's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Burke, were early settlers in Union Prairie township, where has (he) was born May 13, 1882. He married Ellen Byrnes Oct. 20, 1903, and the family had lived ever since in Hanover township.

He is survived by his wife; seven daughters, Mrs. John McCormick, Mrs. Leo Liddiard, and Mrs. Henry Schulie, all of Hanover, Mary Auroro, Ill., Mrs. Earl Griffin, New Albin, Mrs. Phillip Messier, Milwaukee, and Mrs. Ray Sweeney, Lycurgus; three sons, James and Michael Jr., Hanover, and John, Chicago; a brother, Thomas, Dorchester; and three sisters, Sister Mary Cornelia and Sister Mary Leonard, Cedar Rapids, and Cecelia Burke, Minneapolis.

The body will remain at the Burke funeral home until Saturday, when services will be held in St. Mary's Catholic church, Hanover township, the Rev. Joseph Krocheski officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.


 

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