Francis Lawrence Burroughs 1926 - 1997

BURROUGHS RHODES GRIFFIN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/12/2014 at 23:57:07

8 July 1997

UTE, Iowa — Francis Lawrence Burroughs, 71, of Ute died Saturday, July 5, 1997, at his residence.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at United Methodist Church in Charter Oak, Iowa, with the Rev. Don Frizzell officiating. Burial will be in St. Clair Cemetery at Ute, with military rites conducted by the American Legion Aaby Post 442 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5605 both of Ute. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 8 p.m., at the Armstrong Funeral Home in Ute.

Mr. Burroughs was born May 7, 1926, in Northboro, Iowa, the son of Charles and Margaret (Rhodes) Burroughs. He graduated from high school in Northboro in 1943.

He married Freda Griffin in 1948, in Nebraska City, Neb. The couple lived in Shenandoah, Iowa, until moving to Ute in 1958.

He was employed by Iowa Breeders and farmed, along with operating a dairy farm. The couple retired and moved into Ute in 1988.

He was a member of Ute United Methodist Church and the Farm Bureau, where he held the offices of vice president, president and member of the tax review board. He was also a member of the A.M.P.I. milk board for many years and the American Legion Aaby Post 442 of Ute. He enjoyed singing and music.

Survivors include his wife; eight sons, Tim and his wife, Barb, of Rock Falls, Ill., Joe and his wife, Helen, and David and his wife, Clarissa, all of Sioux City, Dan and his wife, Jane, of Mapleton, Iowa, Richard and his wife, Penny, of Marion, Iowa, Ray of Ute, Tony and his wife, Ramona, of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Bob and his wife, Kathy, of Corona, N.M.; a daughter and her husband, Ruth and Tim Aken of Omaha, Neb.; 26 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a sister and her husband, Charlotte and Hank Ditmars of Farragut, Iowa; and two brothers and their wives, Ben and Marilyn of Shenandoah and Jerry and Rexine of Farragut.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his mother and father-in-law, a daughter and a grandson.