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BURRIGHT, Bertha J. (Kezar) 1882-1943

BURRIGHT, KEZAR, SNIDER, HEINZ, ENGLAND, MORGAN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 1/27/2013 at 00:45:32

MRS. BERTHA J. BURRIGHT

Mrs. Bertha J. Burright, 402 East Third Street, died at 2:30 a. m. Tuesday in Presbyterian hospital, two hours after suffering a heart attack. She was 60 years old. She had suffered another heart attack a year ago.

Mrs. Burright was the mother of C. E. Burright, 300 Maryland Avenue, district manager of Mid-Continent Petroleum corporation.

She was born July 18, 1882, at Floyd, Iowa, as Bertha Kezar, daughter of Jerome and Florence Kezar, and in 1900, on her eighteenth birthday, was married to Oscar W. Burright at Waverly, Iowa.

Within a year they moved to Waterloo. Mr. Burright, who died in 1929, was a plant employee of Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation.

Surviving are two sons, C. E., and J. O. Burright, Covington, Kentucky; three brothers: Frank Kezar, 124 West Wellington Street; Heber, Portland, Oregon, and Bert, Mellette, South Dakota; and four sisters: Mrs. George Snider, 728 Dawson Street; Mrs. Charles Morgan, Sioux City, Iowa; Mrs. George England, Kansas City, Missouri, and Mrs. Lloyd Heinz, San Francisco, Calif.

Mrs. Burright was a member of Becker chapter, Order of the Eastern Star.

The funeral will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday in the Kearns Garden chapel by Dr. H. E. Dierenfield, pastor of First Presbyterian church, and burial will be in the Shell Rock, Iowa, Cemetery.

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, February 16, 1943, Waterloo, Iowa]


 

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