Sylvia L. (HANSON) PAINE BURKHEIMER

HASON, PAINE, BURKHEIMER FUSTON, FIELD, PINT, JOHNSON, OROURKE, WORSLEY

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/19/2012 at 05:14:45

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
April, 2005

Sylvia Paine Burkheimer

MASON CITY — Sylvia PAINE BURKHEIMER, 935 6th St. SE, Mason City, died Sunday (April 24, 2005) at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa, Mason City.

Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 302 5th Street S.E., Mason City, with the Rev. Harry KOELKER and the Rev. Kenneth GEHLING officiating. Interment will be at Elmwood Cemetery following service.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave.

Sylvia was born in Forest City on Feb. 13, 1937, to Iva (FUSTON) and Helmer G. HANSON. She attended school in Nora Springs and graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1954.

Sylvia married Bobbie D. PAINE at Holy Name Catholic Church in Rockford, Iowa, on Jan. 1, 1955. She lived in Nora Springs while her husband was stationed in Germany.

After his return, the couple lived in Silver Bay, Minn., for a brief period and then moved to Evansdale, Iowa. Sylvia spent most of these years working with her husband in the used-car business and also as a Realtor.

She moved to Dallas in the mid-1980's and after Bobbie's death, worked at Lomas Financial as a special projects loan analyst. She spent the next 14 years with her husband, Ivan BURKHEIMER, in Dallas until 1999 when they retired to Mason City.

She is survived by her husband, Ivan BURKHEIMER, Mason City; two daughters, Kim FIELD (Joel) of McKinney, Texas; and Robyn PINT (Don) of Glendale, Ariz.; five grandchildren, Nicole and David FIELD of McKinney, Texas, Christopher (Jessica) PINT of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Matthew and Morgan PINT of Glendale, Ariz.; two step-sons, Gary (Helen) BURKHEIMER of Madrid, Iowa, and Steven (Jana) BURKHEIMER of Clarion; one brother, Rodney (Pat) HANSON of Clinton; three sisters, June (Don) JOHNSON of Clear Lake, Laurel (Clem) O'ROURKE of Mason City, and Maxine (William) WORSLEY of Clear Lake.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; two brothers, Gary and Curtis HANSON, an infant brother, Roger; and infant grand-daughter, Rachael.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2012