Kevin John BURRS

BURRS, HARSON, AYERS, RASMUSSEN, CARROLL, PETERSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/24/2013 at 13:02:31

November 15, 1961 --- December 8, 2013

Kevin John Burrs was born November 15, 1961, in Belmond, Iowa, the son of John and Sue (Ayers) Burrs. He grew up in the Corwith area and graduated from the Corwith-Wesley High School in 1980. After his schooling he worked for Corwith Community Co-op from 1981-1986. On September 25, 1982, Kevin was united in marriage to Susan Harson at the Kanawha United Methodist Church. After their marriage they lived near Corwith and in 1986, he continued his schooling at NIACC, graduating in 1988, with a Mechanical Design Technology Degree. Kevin worked at Best Way in Clear Lake for a short time before going to work for Winnebago Industries. In 1991, he went to work for IMT in Garner for a year before going back to Winnebago, where he worked until May of 2008. He then worked at Haige in Clarion. In August of 2011, Kevin went to work for Stellar Industries working in the Kiefer Manufacturing Plant in Kanawha.

Besides his job as a designer, Kevin also farmed and had started an excavating business and in April of 2004, obtained his private pilot's license. He loved to work and stay busy and was always thinking of things that he and his boys could do together for their future. He had a strong work ethic and passed that on to his boys and was always there to help out anyone who needed a helping hand. He loved his family, friends and especially children. Kevin also loved to fly and died doing what he loved with one of his best friends, Mike Fjetland. Kevin died Sunday morning, December 8, 2013, in a plane crash about a mile south of the Los Alamos Airport in Omega Canyon, NM.

He is survived by his wife, Susan Burrs; sons, Cory and Matthew Burrs; parents, John and Sue Burrs; brother, Scott and Kathy Burrs, all of Corwith; sisters, Nancy Rasmussen of Kanawha; Ann and Bruce Carroll of Corwith; mother and father-in-law, Bill and Arlene Harson of Kanawha; brother-in-law, Mike Harson of Falls City, NE, and many nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles. Kevin was preceded in death by grandparents, Martin and Clara Burrs, Wilfred Ayers and Margaret Peterson and a nephew, Andrew Rasmussen.

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Plane that crashed at Los Alamos had just turned

LOS ALAMOS — Investigators say a small plane that crashed after takeoff from the Los Alamos airport had just made a sharp turn before it went down the morning of Dec. 8. The crash in a ravine near the airport destroyed the plane and killed both people aboard. They have been identified as 51-year-old Michael D. Fjetland of Harmony, Minn., and 52-year-old Kevin John Burrs of Corwith, Iowa. A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report says two witnesses reported seeing the plane just before the crash. The preliminary report says one witness said the plane appeared out of whirling snow and then made a 180-degree turn. The second witness reported seeing the airplane at about 100 feet in the air and that it made a steep turn before it disappearing from sight.

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