Casket bearers were Bob Stanford, Eddie Beck, Merlyn Draper, Dale Magnussen, John Raper, and Wayne Wilson. Ushers were Frank Moore and Herb Collier.
Committal was in Waterman Cemetery, Sutherland.
Laura Charlotte Flinders, the daughter of Henry and Emma Wilken Burmeister, was born on a farm near Larrabee, Iowa. She attended school near her childhood home and traveled with her parents to Oregon, making the return trip with them and nine brothers and sisters at age nine in a covered wagon. She attended Normal Training College at Storm Lake, Iowa and taught school in O'Brien and Cherokee Counties for four years.
She was united in marriage to Lawrence Flinders at the bride's home near Sutherland on June 24, 1914. They farmed in Spring township near Sutherland. She had been a resident of Gregg's Nursing Home in Cherokee since 1977.
It was there she passed away on February 23, 1979 at the age of 89. Preceding her in death were her parents and six brothers and sisters.
Left to cherish her memory are her husband, two sons and their wives, Horace and Virginia of Oceanside, Calif., and Dale and Nadine of Lebanon, Ill.; two daughters and their husbands, Betty and Reece Hughes of Harlan, Iowa, and Norma and Lorne Alexander of Sutherland; ten grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren; four brothers, Paul of Largo, Fla., Emery, Henry and Archie all of Chokio, Minn.; and two sisters, Mrs. Harry (Olga) Warren of Parma, Idaho and Mrs. Clare (Alice) Graham of Chokio,, Minn, as well as other relatives and friends.
Sutherland Courier 1 March 1979
Casket bearers were Bob Stanford, Eddie Beck, Merlyn Draper, Dale Magnussen, John Raper, and Wayne Wilson. Ushers were Frank Moore and Herb Collier.
Committal was in Waterman Cemetery, Sutherland.
Laura Charlotte Flinders, the daughter of Henry and Emma Wilken Burmeister, was born on a farm near Larrabee, Iowa. She attended school near her childhood home and traveled with her parents to Oregon, making the return trip with them and nine brothers and sisters at age nine in a covered wagon. She attended Normal Training College at Storm Lake, Iowa and taught school in O'Brien and Cherokee Counties for four years.
She was united in marriage to Lawrence Flinders at the bride's home near Sutherland on June 24, 1914. They farmed in Spring township near Sutherland. She had been a resident of Gregg's Nursing Home in Cherokee since 1977.
It was there she passed away on February 23, 1979 at the age of 89. Preceding her in death were her parents and six brothers and sisters.
Left to cherish her memory are her husband, two sons and their wives, Horace and Virginia of Oceanside, Calif., and Dale and Nadine of Lebanon, Ill.; two daughters and their husbands, Betty and Reece Hughes of Harlan, Iowa, and Norma and Lorne Alexander of Sutherland; ten grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren; four brothers, Paul of Largo, Fla., Emery, Henry and Archie all of Chokio, Minn.; and two sisters, Mrs. Harry (Olga) Warren of Parma, Idaho and Mrs. Clare (Alice) Graham of Chokio,, Minn, as well as other relatives and friends.
Sutherland Courier 1 March 1979
Family Members
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Elsie Katherine Burmeister Clare
1885–1973
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Alma Dorothea Burmeister
1886–1955
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Louise H Burmeister Wilson
1888–1968
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Olga Burmeister Warren
1892–1986
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Otto Bismarck Burmeister
1893–1949
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Paul Peter Burmeister
1895–1985
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Henry Hobson Burmeister
1899–1985
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Emory Carl Burmeister
1901–1982
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Andrew Rolf Burmeister
1903–1945
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Alice Margaret Burmeister Graham
1905–1986
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Archibald Hans Burmeister
1907–1981
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