BURKHARDT, Wilfred Pearl "Burke" 1923-1983

BURKHARDT, ROBBINS, KOEHLER, TELLINGHUISEN AUSTIN, HARGER, PHELAN, MCKENZIE, STUMME, BOHLING, HUMPHREY

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 5/19/2013 at 18:14:29

[Waterloo Courier, Friday, March 4, 1983]

CEDAR FALLS—Services for W. P. "Burke" Burkhardt, 59, of 9008 Mark Road; will be 1:30 p.m. Monday at Dahl- Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home wjth burial in Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery. He died Thursday morning north of Cedar Falls in an accidental shooting.

He was born June 3, 1923, at Cedar Falls, son of Pearl A. and lda L. Robbins Burkhardt. He married Carol Koehler March 12, 1944, at Charles City..

He was a World War II veteran, having served in the Marine Corps. He farmed in the Janesville and Cedar Falls area since 1946 and for the past eight years was,also a DeKalb Seed Com dealer. He was a charter member of the Mobile Nobles of Shrine.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Mark of 9010 Mark Road; two daughters, Marcia Tellinghuisen of Windsor, Colo., and Kristi Austin of Clarksville; five grandchildren; three brothers: Lyle of Waverly, Kenneth of Brush, Colo., and Howard of Stockton, Calif.; and six sisters: Sylvia Harger of Newalla, Okla., Dorothy Phelan of Norman, Okla., Charlotte McKenzie of Riverton, Wyo., Eileen Stumme of Clear Lake, Janice Bohling of Chesterfield, Mo., and Mary Humphrey of Cedar Rapids.

There will be a Masonic service by Equity Lodge 131 of Janesville at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Saturday.

A memorial will be established at a later date.

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[Waterloo Courier, Friday, March 4, 1983]

Gun mishap proves fatal
to rural Cedar Falls man

A rural Cedar Falls man was killed Thursday when his gun accidentally discharged. Wilfred Pearl Burkhardt, 59, of 9008 Mark Road, was found dead with a chest wound on Ford Road near County Road C-57 about 10:45 a.m. Thursday.

Burkhardt had stopped his pickup in the road apparently after spotting some stray dogs that could molest livestock, Black Hawk County sheriff's deputies said.

He got out, and while he was reaching into the back seat for his 16-gauge shotgun, it went off. The blast hit him in the chest.

Family friends told deputies that farmers in the area had been having trouble with the stray dogs chasing cattle. They said Burkhardt told them he was going to shoot stray dogs that could be involved, deputies reported.