Burgin, Guendola Bernice Cox (1896-1983)

BURGIN, COX, WILSON, MCGILL, SHAEFFER, BAUER

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 5/15/2015 at 10:23:53

Daily Freeman Journal, Wednesday, September 28, 1983

Funeral services for Mrs. W.E. Burgin, 87, longtime Webster City resident, will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Asbury United Methodist church with Rev. Edward Philgreen officiating and with burial in the Graceland cemetery.

Mrs. Burgin died yesterday morning at the Hamilton County Hospital where she had been a patient since Monday. She had been in ill health the past several years.

Friends may call at the Foster Funeral home until 10 a.m. Friday when the casket will be taken to the church.

Guendola Bernice Cox, daughter of Nathaniel and Emma Wilson Cox, was born Aug. 6, 1896, at Stanhope. She was reared and educated in Greene county near Jefferson, later moving with her family to Colorado.

She was married to W.E. Burgin, and the couple farmed in the Iowa Falls and Webster City area, moving into Webster City in 1951.

She is survived by her husband; three daughters and two sons, Mrs. Milton (Dortha) McGill of Centerville, Carl Burgin of Cincinnati, Iowa, LeRoy Burgin of Webster City, Mrs. Robert (Wanda) Shaeffer of Couderay, Wis., and Mrs. Derrald (Sally) Bauer of Numa, Iowa; a nephew, Walter Burgin of Norwalk, Iowa, who was raised in the Burgin home; 19 grandchildren; 41 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Elmer Cox of St. Croix Falls, Wis, and Ellsworth Cox of Centuria, Wis., and several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Burgin was preceded in death by one son, Douglas, who died in infancy; her parents; four brothers and two sisters.

She was a member of the Asbury United Methodist church.