Burnight, Charles A., 1889-1971

BURNIGHT, GIBBONS

Posted By: Lydia Lucas-Volunteer (email)
Date: 9/22/2011 at 18:48:11

Funeral services were held for Charles A. Burnight, 81, of 1412 25th Street, on Saturday, January 16 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward C. Lilly officiated.

Graveside services were held at 12:45 on that day in St. Catherine's Cemetery in Akron, Iowa. The Rev. Stanley Stone officiated. Burial was under the direction of the Larkin Funeral Home of Sioux City. Pallbearers were Robert Barver, Michael Redmond, Terry and Lowell Stinton, Everald Taskert and Patrick Burnight. The Rosary was recited at 7:30 Friday evening at the Funeral Home by the Holy Name Society and at 8:00 by the parishioners.

Mr. Burnight died Thursday [Jan. 14] at a Sioux City hospital after a month's illness.

Mr. Burnight was born March 19, 1889 at Akron. He lived there until coming to Sioux City thirty years ago. He married Catherine Gibbons in 1911 at Akron and she died in 1963. Mr. Burnight was a member of the St. Joseph Catholic Church and the Holy Name Society.

Survivors include a son, Ted of Hawarden; a daughter, Mrs. Madeline Vanderham of Sioux City; a brother, Henry of Chatsworth; a sister, Mrs. Lawrence Gibbons of Akron and five grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.

Source: Hawarden Independent, Jan. 21, 1971.

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Another news note in the same issue of the Hawarden Independent: Chuck Burnight, from Midland, Texas, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mullin, Molly and Matt from Council Bluffs, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Burnight and Kelly of Yankton were all called home at the death of their grandfather, Charles Burnight.