Bertha Burnson (-1930)

BURNSON, KIRK

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 9/9/2008 at 21:59:29

AMES DAILY TRIBUNE-TIMES, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1930.

Funeral Held For Maxwell's Oldest

Tribune-Times County News Service

MAXWELL - Funeral services for Mrs. Bertha Burnson, 94, Maxwell's oldest citizen, were held here Wednesday afternoon at the home of a grand daughter, Mrs. C. I. Kirk, with the Rev. Hugh C. Guy in charge. The Rev. DeLoss Marken of Des Moines, a former pastor of the deceased, assisted. Burial was in the Maxwell cemetery.

Mrs. Burnson died last Sunday.