DR. JOHN WESLEY BURKETT
Dr. John W. Burkett
Funeral Saturday
Funeral services will be held next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Community Church for the late Dr. John Wesley Burkett, retired minister of the Evangelical-United Brethren Church, who died in Pitkin County Hospital after surgery to repair a broken hip bone after a fall last Saturday evening
Dr. Burkett, father of Mrs. Ruth Ringle, was on his way to attend the Junior Races Ski Banquet at the school gym Saturday when he slipped on the glass-slick street near his home falling on his right hip. He was rushed to the hospital and after X-rays were taken the decision was made to repair the damage by a pin rather than a cast.
After rallying from the operation for a few hours, he quietly slipped away Wednesday at 5 p.m. to meet the Captain of the Salvation he preached in his ministry for over 50 years in the Church
The body will lie in state in the Church from 1:30 to 1:45 where friends may view if they so desire. At 1:45 the casket will be closed and remain so during the entire service.
The service will be conducted by the Rev. Bronston Greenwood, Minister of the Community Church where Dr. Burkett was faithfully found every Sunday morning at the regular 11 o'clock worship service.
John Wesley Burkett was born March 27, 1874 in Henry County, Missouri near Appleton City. He resided there and for about 4 years in Ohio, before the family left Missouri for Harper County, Kansas, arriving at the new farm in October 1883.
After finishing grade school and working on the farm for several years, he felt the call to preach the gospel in 1895. He was granted a license to preach and he began his ministry that was officially terminated in August, 1949 when he and his wife retired from active duty. He was ordained in March 1899 at the annual conference of the church.
He was man led to Miss Bertha Blinn on April 7, 1897 and to this union was born four daughters, one of them, Rachel, preceding him in death.
In the fall of 1899 he and his wife entered Lane University, and later graduating from Campbell College at Holton in 1904. After taking graduate work in York College, he received his Master's degree in 1910.
Upon completing the Master's Degree in York, Dr. Burkett entered the Kansas City College of Osteopathy where he was graduated in 1914. He practiced for 10 years in Wichita all the while serving the church by pastoring the Waco Avenue United Brethren Church where he was instrumental in building a new edifice there.
After the death of his wife, Bertha, and daughter, Rachel, within 15 months in 1921 and 1923, Dr. Burkett moved to Kansas City, Kansas where he became a member of the faculty of Kansas City University. After two years there he again entered the pastorate work and moved with his three girls to Independence.
While in Independence, Dr. Burkett met Miss Clella Jones who had been a student at Campbell College at the same time. They were married on May 23, 1926 and she shared his work in the ministry for the next twenty-five years until her death in Aspen on April 16, 1952.
On Sunday, August 14th Dr. Burkett preached his last sermon as a regularly assigned pastor in Pittsburg, Kansas Evangelical United Brethren Church and the next week they moved their household goods to Aspen where they maintained their home.
Dr. Burkett was an avid reader belonging to several book clubs, reading several books each month besides finding time to read his Bible through several times during the past five years. He joined the Great Books classes that were started recently and kept up with the affairs of the church, the city, and the nation. He carried on a voluminous correspondence with friends in most of the churches he served during the past 50 years and then found time to prepare a "Sermon of the Week" for the Aspen Times.
He was a poet of no small ability, composing mostly on religious themes for his own enjoyment as well as others.
During the Kansas Legislative year of 1942-43, Dr. Burkett was appointed Chaplain of the House which position he filled with distinction, He carried on the Chaplain's work while he was minister of the church at Virgil, Kansas.
Dr. Burkett was active physically and took long walks about the city and on his hikes, became friends with many of the townspeople. He enjoyed music and attended practically all of the music concerts of the Aspen Festival. He was fastidious in his dress and never appeared without white shirt, tie, and coat.
He is survived by his three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Ringle, Aspen; Mrs. Esther Ary, Kansas City, Mo.; and Mrs. Mary Rhea, Wichita, Kansas; two brothers, Joseph Burkett and Jacob Burkett both living in Alva, Okla.; and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Stoffer, and Mrs. Mary Leake, Burbank, Calif.; three granddaughters; and four grandsons; and several nephews and nieces.
Dr. Burkett was a member for over twenty-five years of Henri Lodge No. 190. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons at Tonganoxie, Kansas.
Burial will be in the Masonic plot in Red Butte cemetery.
Aspen Daily Times
Transcribed by Carol Moore
January 19, 1956
Aspen, Colorado
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Dr. John W. Burkett
Funeral Saturday
Funeral services will be held next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Community Church for the late Dr. John Wesley Burkett, retired minister of the Evangelical-United Brethren Church, who died in Pitkin County Hospital after surgery to repair a broken hip bone after a fall last Saturday evening
Dr. Burkett, father of Mrs. Ruth Ringle, was on his way to attend the Junior Races Ski Banquet at the school gym Saturday when he slipped on the glass-slick street near his home falling on his right hip. He was rushed to the hospital and after X-rays were taken the decision was made to repair the damage by a pin rather than a cast.
After rallying from the operation for a few hours, he quietly slipped away Wednesday at 5 p.m. to meet the Captain of the Salvation he preached in his ministry for over 50 years in the Church
The body will lie in state in the Church from 1:30 to 1:45 where friends may view if they so desire. At 1:45 the casket will be closed and remain so during the entire service.
The service will be conducted by the Rev. Bronston Greenwood, Minister of the Community Church where Dr. Burkett was faithfully found every Sunday morning at the regular 11 o'clock worship service.
John Wesley Burkett was born March 27, 1874 in Henry County, Missouri near Appleton City. He resided there and for about 4 years in Ohio, before the family left Missouri for Harper County, Kansas, arriving at the new farm in October 1883.
After finishing grade school and working on the farm for several years, he felt the call to preach the gospel in 1895. He was granted a license to preach and he began his ministry that was officially terminated in August, 1949 when he and his wife retired from active duty. He was ordained in March 1899 at the annual conference of the church.
He was man led to Miss Bertha Blinn on April 7, 1897 and to this union was born four daughters, one of them, Rachel, preceding him in death.
In the fall of 1899 he and his wife entered Lane University, and later graduating from Campbell College at Holton in 1904. After taking graduate work in York College, he received his Master's degree in 1910.
Upon completing the Master's Degree in York, Dr. Burkett entered the Kansas City College of Osteopathy where he was graduated in 1914. He practiced for 10 years in Wichita all the while serving the church by pastoring the Waco Avenue United Brethren Church where he was instrumental in building a new edifice there.
After the death of his wife, Bertha, and daughter, Rachel, within 15 months in 1921 and 1923, Dr. Burkett moved to Kansas City, Kansas where he became a member of the faculty of Kansas City University. After two years there he again entered the pastorate work and moved with his three girls to Independence.
While in Independence, Dr. Burkett met Miss Clella Jones who had been a student at Campbell College at the same time. They were married on May 23, 1926 and she shared his work in the ministry for the next twenty-five years until her death in Aspen on April 16, 1952.
On Sunday, August 14th Dr. Burkett preached his last sermon as a regularly assigned pastor in Pittsburg, Kansas Evangelical United Brethren Church and the next week they moved their household goods to Aspen where they maintained their home.
Dr. Burkett was an avid reader belonging to several book clubs, reading several books each month besides finding time to read his Bible through several times during the past five years. He joined the Great Books classes that were started recently and kept up with the affairs of the church, the city, and the nation. He carried on a voluminous correspondence with friends in most of the churches he served during the past 50 years and then found time to prepare a "Sermon of the Week" for the Aspen Times.
He was a poet of no small ability, composing mostly on religious themes for his own enjoyment as well as others.
During the Kansas Legislative year of 1942-43, Dr. Burkett was appointed Chaplain of the House which position he filled with distinction, He carried on the Chaplain's work while he was minister of the church at Virgil, Kansas.
Dr. Burkett was active physically and took long walks about the city and on his hikes, became friends with many of the townspeople. He enjoyed music and attended practically all of the music concerts of the Aspen Festival. He was fastidious in his dress and never appeared without white shirt, tie, and coat.
He is survived by his three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Ringle, Aspen; Mrs. Esther Ary, Kansas City, Mo.; and Mrs. Mary Rhea, Wichita, Kansas; two brothers, Joseph Burkett and Jacob Burkett both living in Alva, Okla.; and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Stoffer, and Mrs. Mary Leake, Burbank, Calif.; three granddaughters; and four grandsons; and several nephews and nieces.
Dr. Burkett was a member for over twenty-five years of Henri Lodge No. 190. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons at Tonganoxie, Kansas.
Burial will be in the Masonic plot in Red Butte cemetery.
Aspen Daily Times
Transcribed by Carol Moore
January 19, 1956
Aspen, Colorado
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DR. JOHN WESLEY BURKETT
Dr. John W. Burkett
Funeral Saturday
Funeral services will be held next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Community Church for the late Dr. John Wesley Burkett, retired minister of the Evangelical-United Brethren Church, who died in Pitkin County Hospital after surgery to repair a broken hip bone after a fall last Saturday evening
Dr. Burkett, father of Mrs. Ruth Ringle, was on his way to attend the Junior Races Ski Banquet at the school gym Saturday when he slipped on the glass-slick street near his home falling on his right hip. He was rushed to the hospital and after X-rays were taken the decision was made to repair the damage by a pin rather than a cast.
After rallying from the operation for a few hours, he quietly slipped away Wednesday at 5 p.m. to meet the Captain of the Salvation he preached in his ministry for over 50 years in the Church
The body will lie in state in the Church from 1:30 to 1:45 where friends may view if they so desire. At 1:45 the casket will be closed and remain so during the entire service.
The service will be conducted by the Rev. Bronston Greenwood, Minister of the Community Church where Dr. Burkett was faithfully found every Sunday morning at the regular 11 o'clock worship service.
John Wesley Burkett was born March 27, 1874 in Henry County, Missouri near Appleton City. He resided there and for about 4 years in Ohio, before the family left Missouri for Harper County, Kansas, arriving at the new farm in October 1883.
After finishing grade school and working on the farm for several years, he felt the call to preach the gospel in 1895. He was granted a license to preach and he began his ministry that was officially terminated in August, 1949 when he and his wife retired from active duty. He was ordained in March 1899 at the annual conference of the church.
He was man led to Miss Bertha Blinn on April 7, 1897 and to this union was born four daughters, one of them, Rachel, preceding him in death.
In the fall of 1899 he and his wife entered Lane University, and later graduating from Campbell College at Holton in 1904. After taking graduate work in York College, he received his Master's degree in 1910.
Upon completing the Master's Degree in York, Dr. Burkett entered the Kansas City College of Osteopathy where he was graduated in 1914. He practiced for 10 years in Wichita all the while serving the church by pastoring the Waco Avenue United Brethren Church where he was instrumental in building a new edifice there.
After the death of his wife, Bertha, and daughter, Rachel, within 15 months in 1921 and 1923, Dr. Burkett moved to Kansas City, Kansas where he became a member of the faculty of Kansas City University. After two years there he again entered the pastorate work and moved with his three girls to Independence.
While in Independence, Dr. Burkett met Miss Clella Jones who had been a student at Campbell College at the same time. They were married on May 23, 1926 and she shared his work in the ministry for the next twenty-five years until her death in Aspen on April 16, 1952.
On Sunday, August 14th Dr. Burkett preached his last sermon as a regularly assigned pastor in Pittsburg, Kansas Evangelical United Brethren Church and the next week they moved their household goods to Aspen where they maintained their home.
Dr. Burkett was an avid reader belonging to several book clubs, reading several books each month besides finding time to read his Bible through several times during the past five years. He joined the Great Books classes that were started recently and kept up with the affairs of the church, the city, and the nation. He carried on a voluminous correspondence with friends in most of the churches he served during the past 50 years and then found time to prepare a "Sermon of the Week" for the Aspen Times.
He was a poet of no small ability, composing mostly on religious themes for his own enjoyment as well as others.
During the Kansas Legislative year of 1942-43, Dr. Burkett was appointed Chaplain of the House which position he filled with distinction, He carried on the Chaplain's work while he was minister of the church at Virgil, Kansas.
Dr. Burkett was active physically and took long walks about the city and on his hikes, became friends with many of the townspeople. He enjoyed music and attended practically all of the music concerts of the Aspen Festival. He was fastidious in his dress and never appeared without white shirt, tie, and coat.
He is survived by his three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Ringle, Aspen; Mrs. Esther Ary, Kansas City, Mo.; and Mrs. Mary Rhea, Wichita, Kansas; two brothers, Joseph Burkett and Jacob Burkett both living in Alva, Okla.; and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Stoffer, and Mrs. Mary Leake, Burbank, Calif.; three granddaughters; and four grandsons; and several nephews and nieces.
Dr. Burkett was a member for over twenty-five years of Henri Lodge No. 190. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons at Tonganoxie, Kansas.
Burial will be in the Masonic plot in Red Butte cemetery.
Aspen Daily Times
Transcribed by Carol Moore
January 19, 1956
Aspen, Colorado
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Dr. John W. Burkett
Funeral Saturday
Funeral services will be held next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Community Church for the late Dr. John Wesley Burkett, retired minister of the Evangelical-United Brethren Church, who died in Pitkin County Hospital after surgery to repair a broken hip bone after a fall last Saturday evening
Dr. Burkett, father of Mrs. Ruth Ringle, was on his way to attend the Junior Races Ski Banquet at the school gym Saturday when he slipped on the glass-slick street near his home falling on his right hip. He was rushed to the hospital and after X-rays were taken the decision was made to repair the damage by a pin rather than a cast.
After rallying from the operation for a few hours, he quietly slipped away Wednesday at 5 p.m. to meet the Captain of the Salvation he preached in his ministry for over 50 years in the Church
The body will lie in state in the Church from 1:30 to 1:45 where friends may view if they so desire. At 1:45 the casket will be closed and remain so during the entire service.
The service will be conducted by the Rev. Bronston Greenwood, Minister of the Community Church where Dr. Burkett was faithfully found every Sunday morning at the regular 11 o'clock worship service.
John Wesley Burkett was born March 27, 1874 in Henry County, Missouri near Appleton City. He resided there and for about 4 years in Ohio, before the family left Missouri for Harper County, Kansas, arriving at the new farm in October 1883.
After finishing grade school and working on the farm for several years, he felt the call to preach the gospel in 1895. He was granted a license to preach and he began his ministry that was officially terminated in August, 1949 when he and his wife retired from active duty. He was ordained in March 1899 at the annual conference of the church.
He was man led to Miss Bertha Blinn on April 7, 1897 and to this union was born four daughters, one of them, Rachel, preceding him in death.
In the fall of 1899 he and his wife entered Lane University, and later graduating from Campbell College at Holton in 1904. After taking graduate work in York College, he received his Master's degree in 1910.
Upon completing the Master's Degree in York, Dr. Burkett entered the Kansas City College of Osteopathy where he was graduated in 1914. He practiced for 10 years in Wichita all the while serving the church by pastoring the Waco Avenue United Brethren Church where he was instrumental in building a new edifice there.
After the death of his wife, Bertha, and daughter, Rachel, within 15 months in 1921 and 1923, Dr. Burkett moved to Kansas City, Kansas where he became a member of the faculty of Kansas City University. After two years there he again entered the pastorate work and moved with his three girls to Independence.
While in Independence, Dr. Burkett met Miss Clella Jones who had been a student at Campbell College at the same time. They were married on May 23, 1926 and she shared his work in the ministry for the next twenty-five years until her death in Aspen on April 16, 1952.
On Sunday, August 14th Dr. Burkett preached his last sermon as a regularly assigned pastor in Pittsburg, Kansas Evangelical United Brethren Church and the next week they moved their household goods to Aspen where they maintained their home.
Dr. Burkett was an avid reader belonging to several book clubs, reading several books each month besides finding time to read his Bible through several times during the past five years. He joined the Great Books classes that were started recently and kept up with the affairs of the church, the city, and the nation. He carried on a voluminous correspondence with friends in most of the churches he served during the past 50 years and then found time to prepare a "Sermon of the Week" for the Aspen Times.
He was a poet of no small ability, composing mostly on religious themes for his own enjoyment as well as others.
During the Kansas Legislative year of 1942-43, Dr. Burkett was appointed Chaplain of the House which position he filled with distinction, He carried on the Chaplain's work while he was minister of the church at Virgil, Kansas.
Dr. Burkett was active physically and took long walks about the city and on his hikes, became friends with many of the townspeople. He enjoyed music and attended practically all of the music concerts of the Aspen Festival. He was fastidious in his dress and never appeared without white shirt, tie, and coat.
He is survived by his three daughters, Mrs. Ruth Ringle, Aspen; Mrs. Esther Ary, Kansas City, Mo.; and Mrs. Mary Rhea, Wichita, Kansas; two brothers, Joseph Burkett and Jacob Burkett both living in Alva, Okla.; and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Stoffer, and Mrs. Mary Leake, Burbank, Calif.; three granddaughters; and four grandsons; and several nephews and nieces.
Dr. Burkett was a member for over twenty-five years of Henri Lodge No. 190. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons at Tonganoxie, Kansas.
Burial will be in the Masonic plot in Red Butte cemetery.
Aspen Daily Times
Transcribed by Carol Moore
January 19, 1956
Aspen, Colorado
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