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BUERKLE, Florest H. Died 1990

BUERKLE, COPPEL, HOUSTON, HEALD, JOHNSON, REDBURN

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Date: 1/24/2025 at 17:50:24

VB Reg
1990 MY 24

Florest H. Buerkle

Florest H. Buerkle, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Jessie Coppel Houston, was born January 29, 1906 in Missouri and died the morning of Friday, May 18, 1990 at Van Buren County Memorial Hospital, Keosauqua, at the age of 84.

She married Howard Heald June 3, 1925 in Scotland County, Missouri. died in 1952. She later married Howard Buerkle at Park Forest, Ill. He died in 1960.

Mrs. Buerkle graduated from Memphis, Mo. High School in 1923 with a teacher training certificate and taught in a one room rural school in Scotland County. She graduated from Beauty School in 1926 and was licensed as a beautician. She operated beauty shops in Chicago, Ill. and Columbus, Ohio, retired to Mountain Home, Ark., and moved to Keosauqua in 1976.

Surviving are a daughter, Sharon Heald, Chicago, Ill., two brothers, Raymond Houston, Viroqua, Wisconsin, and Charles Houston, Centralia, Ill., two sisters Mirium Johnson, Columbus, Ohio and Madeline Redburn in Arizona, nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends. A brother, Laverne Houston, preceded her in death.

Funeral services were held Monday, May 21, 1990 at 11 a.m. at Pedrick Funeral Home, Keosauqua, with Rev. Bob Patterson officiating. Interment was in the Heald Cemetery on the Heald family farm in Scotland County, Mo., south of Mt. Sterling, Iowa. A memorial has been established.

Source: "Scrapbook 1989 - 1990", Pg. 702,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA


 

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