Burrack, Margaret Alice Leonard (Keller) 1919-2004

BURRACK, ROBESON, KELLER, LEONARD

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Date: 9/27/2014 at 09:24:59

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source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, Thur., 15 July 2004.

Strawberry Point- Margaret Alice Burrack, 84, of Strawberry Point, died Tuesday, July 13, 2004, in University Hospitals, Iowa City, following a stroke. Services: 11 a.m. Friday, Emanuel Lutheran Church, by the Rev. Jason Cooper. Burial: Strawberry Point Cemetery. Friends may call from 1 to 8 p.m. today at Roberson Funeral Home, Strawberry Point, with the family present from 5 to 8 p.m.

Survivors include a son, Ted Leonard of Winterset; and a brother, George Keller of Manchester.

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Originally posted by Treva Patterson on 6/27/2007, to the Madison co. Obituary board. Removed to the Clayton co. board where she lived & is buried.

source: Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
July 26, 2004

Margaret Burrack, Strawberry Point
Margaret Alice Burrack, 84, of Strawberry Point died July 13, 2004 at University Hospitals in Iowa City from complications of a stroke. Funeral services were held Friday July 16 at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Strawberry Point with the Rev. Jason Cooper officiating. Burial was at Strawberry Point Cemetery.

Margaret Burrack was born Aug. 20, 1919 in Manchester to Claude and Ida (Robeson) Keller. She attended school in Manchester, graduating in 1936.

In June 1941, she married Alfred Leonard at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. Alfred died while serving in World War II.

She later married Leonard Burrack in July 1949 and had resided in Strawberry Point since.

Margaret had been employed by Union Bank and Trust for 25 years as head teller and cashier. Following retirement she worked part time at the Wilder Museum. She was an active member of Emanuel Lutheran Church, serving as treasurer for many years and on several committees.

She was preceded in death by both husbands, two brothers and two sisters. She is survived by one son, Ted Leonard of Winterset; a brother, George Keller of Manchester; and three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Roberson Funeral Home in Strawberry Point