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Submitted: 4/16/21 • Approved: 4/19/21 • Last Updated: 4/22/21 • R409395-G409394-S3
June 17, 1921 - March 13, 2004
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Abilene Reporter News 17 Mar 2004
ROTAN -- LaVera Louise Burkhart, 82, died Saturday March 13, 2004 at her home. A Memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Thursday March 18, 2004 at the Weathersbee-Ray Funeral Home Chapel in Rotan. Officiated by Brother Dutch Parks and directed by Weathersbee-Ray Funeral Home.
Born, June 17, 1921, in Walnut, Tx, she was a daughter of the late Virgil and Gracie Jewel (Bagley) Tankersley. LaVera moved to Rotan in 1979, she worked inside her home raising her family and later became a cake decorator in Sweetwater.
She loved nature and the outdoors, she would spend her spare time gardening and feeding the birds. LaVera was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church.
She is preceded in death by her parents, one brother, Carl Hugh Tankersley and her former husband Steve Burkhart.
Survivors include three sons and one daughter-in-law Ted and Linda Burkhart of Carlsbad, NM, Terry Burkhart of Packwood, Washington and Ricky Burkhart of Louisiana; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two brothers Bill Tankersley of Milsap and Cecil Tankersley of Weatherford; and two sisters June Underwood of Banning, CA and Wanda McKenna of San Angelo.
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