BURRIS, Emily Louise Katherine (YOUNKE)

YOUNKE, BURRIS, WATERS, PROHSKA, DESPENAS, BOIKE, SMITH

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/24/2016 at 14:23:44

Obituary ~ Emily Louise Katherine (Younke) Burris
December 21, 1901 ~ June 03, 1970

Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa
Thursday, June 04, 1970

Emily Louise Burris, 5412 First avenue NW, widow of John Frank Burris, and a Cedar Rapids resident the last year, died Wednesday [June 3]. Born December 21, 1901, at Luverne, Mrs. Burris was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran church at Mason City.

Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Jeff Waters, with whom she made her home; Mrs. Glenn Prohska, also of Cedar Rapids; Mrs. Edward Despenas of Mason City; and Mrs. Harman Boike of Dike; two sons, Robert, Mason City, and Franklin, St. Petersburg, Fla.; 13 grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Lester Smith, Gary, Ind.

The body was taken from Turner chapel east to the Patterson James funeral home at Mason City where services and burial [at Memorial Park Cemetery] will be held.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2016