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Gracie Lee GREENHILL BURKE

Wheeler Cemetery
Wheeler County,
Texas

Will E.
1898-1989

Gracie Lee
1903-1989

In Loving Memory

*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary Will
Will E. Burke, 92, died Monday, May 14, 1989.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 17 in First Baptist Church. Rev. M.B. Smith, retired Baptist minister of Pampa and Rev. Robert Helsley, pastor officiated. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.

Mr. Burke, born in Hill County, had been a Wheeler resident since 1918. He married Gracie Lee Greenhill in 1932 at Marietta, Okla. He was a farmer. He was a member of Masonic Lodge and First Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife; and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were Thomas Daughtry, Jerry Hefley, Jerry Mounce, Thurman Rives, Cecil Snelgrooes, Kent Ware.

(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 55, Number 25, Thursday, May 18, 1989, Page 1)
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U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Name: Willie Eason Burke
Gender: Male
Residence Age: 45
Birth Date: 2 Jan 1897
Residence Date: 1942
Residence Place: Wheeler, Texas, USA

Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Willie Burke
Death Date: 14 May 1989
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Male

*Obituary Gracie
Gracie Lee Burke, 86, died Thursday, October 12, 1989.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church. Rev. Robert Helsley, pastor, officiated. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.

Mrs. Burke, born in Abbott, moved to Wheeler County in 1932 from Hillsboro. She married Will E. Burke in 1932 at Marietta, OK. He died in May. She was a farmer and a member of Wheeler First Baptist Church.

Survivors include two sisters-in-law, Stella Greenhill and Mary Greenhill; and several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were Thomas Daughtry, Jerry Hefley, Jerry Mounce, Thurman Rives, Cecil Snelgrooes, Kent Ware.

(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 55, Number 47, Thursday, October 19, 1989)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Gracie Burke
Death Date: 12 Oct 1989
Death County: Potter

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Grace Burke
Last Residence:
79096 Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
BORN: 2 Apr 1903
Died: 12 Oct 1989

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Submitted: 10/24/21 • Approved: 10/24/21 • Last Updated: 10/27/21 • R464966-G464964-S3

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