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Submitted: 2/13/13 • Approved: 7/1/17 • Last Updated: 7/2/17 • R832163-G832163-S3
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Grady
May 1,1920-Apr 15,2012
Graden Clifton "Grady" Burke, 91, of Fort Smith died Sunday, April 15, 2012, in his home.
He was born May 1, 1920, in Cecil.
He was the widower of Wilma Burke.
He was a 1938 Greenwood High School graduate, a Draughon's Business School graduate, a World War II Air Force veteran, former employee of Johnston Transfer & Storage, North American Van Lines, Randall Ford and Sallisaw Ford, an elder and member of Marietta Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Charleston, a member of Charleston Lodge No. 155, Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Shriners Club and Amrita Grotto, a past member of UCT Club and Kiwanis Club and past president of the Arkansas Consumer Credit Association and International Consumer Credit Association District 7.
Funeral will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at Marietta Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Charleston with burial at Garden of Memories Cemetery in Charleston under the direction of Brotherton Brothers Funeral Home in Charleston.
He is survived by his companion, Hautene Beach of Fort Smith; a daughter, Rebecca Faldon of Fort Smith; a sister, Oweta Neuhauser of Sandwich, Ill.; two grandsons; and two great-granddaughters
Pallbearers will be Tom McMellon, Charlie Daniel, David Valentini, Rick and Keith Lux, Bob and Rick Beach and Steve Jones.
Wilma
Aug 19,1926-Mar 25,2001
Daughter of Alonza A and Minta Duncan Raney
Contributed on 2/13/13 by bill060
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