The BURGHER family came to the Maloy area in the spring of 1937. There were six children: Lyle, Howard, Hazel, Doris, Bill and Donald. They moved across the fields in bob sleds and wagons - most of the roads were blocked with snow. Many times in years thereafter the neighbors would band together to scoop out the roads so people could get to town for supplies and maybe go to a ballgame.

Pearl and Mary drove the school bus for several years, sometimes a car packed two or three deep, more often a wagon pulled by a team of horses, or on occasion a bob sled.

Hazel, Doris, Bill and Donald all attended school at Maloy.

Pearl farmed in the Maloy, Blockton and Clearfield area. He was active on agriculture and conservation committees, on the school board and in Masonic Lodge.

Pearl and Mary BURGHER lived in Gravity in retirement. He passed away some years ago.

Lyle BURGHER married Edna COULSON. They lived on a farm north of Ellston until his death in a sawmill accident in 1957. They had four sons: Gary, Dale, Lloyd and Ronald.

Howard married Norma HULL. They farmed north of Tingley. Five children were born to them: Diana, "Pete." Norman, Lynita and Jeanie.

Hazel, the oldest daughter, married Gail TOYNE. They lived in the Green County area with their family of seven children: Carol, Danny, twins Maureen and Darlene, Dennis, David and Lyla. Maureen is deceased. Dennis and David are both ministers.

Doris married Don HINTON. They lived in Taylor County and farmed until his death in 1971. They had four children.

Deloris and her two boys live in Sharpsburg.

Daryl is at Postville, Iowa, and works at Norples. He is married, but has no children.

Debra, now at home in Slater, Iowa after living in Alaska, Hawaii and San Diego, has two boys.

Donna is married and lives in Lawton, Oklahoma. She is a medical technologist with the blood bank there.

Doris has for the most part of her widowed life worked in real estate with MAYNES Agency of Lenox and resides in Lenox. Previously, Doris taught school at Redding and at Maloy for two years in the elementary grades. Sher recalls a special friendship with Jean KEENAN which began during their four years of high school at Maloy when they were "best friends" and graduated together in 1942. This friendship has endured into this Centennial year.

NOTES: Pearl BURGHER, the son of Charles and Minnie (GOLDENSTEAD) BURGHER, was born October 3, 1899, Bloomfield, Iowa, and died March 16, 1981, Mount Ayr, Iowa. He married Mary Maude McCARTY on January 17, 1916. Mary Maude (McCARTY) BURGHER died in 1995.

Doris Beatrice BURGHER was born November 16, 1925

Lyle BURGHER died at the age of 39 on December 14, 1955. He was interred at Ellston Cemetery.

Charles W. "Bill" BURGHER was born in Redding on January 18, 1931, and died December 24, 2005. Hazel Mae (BURGHER) TOYNE McKINLEY was born May 11, 1920, and died at the age of 77 years on May 19, 1997. She marrried Maurice Gail TOYNE on July 23, 1941. He died in 1961. She married second on November 7, 1964 Clarence McKINLEY who preceded her in death on May 20, 1986. Hazel was interred Jefferson Cemetery, Jefferson, Iowa.

Howard Daniel BURGHER died in 1997.

Howard Eugene "Pete" BURGHER, son of Norma Maxine (HULL) and Howard Daniel BURGHER, was born May 14, 1951, and passed away at the age of 60 years on June 4, 2011. He was interred at Ellston Cemetery.

SOURCE: Maloy, Iowa Centennial History: 1887 - 1987 p. 100. 1987.

Courtesy of Mount Ayr Public Library

Transcription and Notes by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2011