1920-2004
MCLEMORESVILLE: Services for Brooksye Irene Burke, 84, were conducted on Thursday, December 9 at 2:00 p.m. at the McLemoresville Church with Rev. Ron Cox and Bro. Darrell Harris officiating. Interment followed in the McLemoresville Cemetery.
Mrs. Burke died on Tuesday, December 7 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon.
She was born July 9, 1920 in Carroll County to the late Edgar Newton Sampson and Zenie Green Sampson. She was a retired supervisor for the O'Bryan Brothers Manufacturing Company, a charter member of the McLemoresville Baptist Church and volunteered at the Carroll County Museum. She was preceded in death by her husband, Rupert R. Burke, who died in 1978, three sisters, Helen Barrow, Sadie Horn and Gladys Travis and one brother, John Sampson.
Survivors include two daughters, Barbara Younger of McLemoresville and Patty McIver of Clayton, North Carolina; two sons, Travis Burke of Knoxville and Keith Burke of Cookeville; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Chase Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements..
Husband:
Rupert Royce Burke1913 – 1978
1920-2004
MCLEMORESVILLE: Services for Brooksye Irene Burke, 84, were conducted on Thursday, December 9 at 2:00 p.m. at the McLemoresville Church with Rev. Ron Cox and Bro. Darrell Harris officiating. Interment followed in the McLemoresville Cemetery.
Mrs. Burke died on Tuesday, December 7 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Huntingdon.
She was born July 9, 1920 in Carroll County to the late Edgar Newton Sampson and Zenie Green Sampson. She was a retired supervisor for the O'Bryan Brothers Manufacturing Company, a charter member of the McLemoresville Baptist Church and volunteered at the Carroll County Museum. She was preceded in death by her husband, Rupert R. Burke, who died in 1978, three sisters, Helen Barrow, Sadie Horn and Gladys Travis and one brother, John Sampson.
Survivors include two daughters, Barbara Younger of McLemoresville and Patty McIver of Clayton, North Carolina; two sons, Travis Burke of Knoxville and Keith Burke of Cookeville; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Chase Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements..
Husband:
Rupert Royce Burke1913 – 1978
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