Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1911 — Belated News of the Death Of a Former Citizen. [ARTICLE]

Belated News of the Death Of a Former Citizen.

Through D. B. Nowels, of Lamar, Colo., we have just learned of the death in that city of Charles Burk, who moved from Jasper county many agb. He was a brother of Geo. W. Burk, who left Rensselaer anu located at Lamar, some eight or ten years ago. After Mr. Charles Burk’s removal from Jasper county he located near Rippey, lowa. He later moved to McHenry, N. Dak., where he resided at the time of his death. For more than a year he had been a sufferer from acute asthma. He and wife had spent the winter in Texas for his health and he seemed much improved from "his southern stay. On his way home he stopped to his brother in Lamar and still apparantly kept gaining in health apd strength. After a stay of about two weeks he took suddenly and unexpectedly worse and lasted but a few hours. His wife took his body to Rippey, lowa, for interment, where a wife by a former marriage is buried.' He was a man ofconsiderable prominence in McHenry. N. Dak., and "was universally respected. He was 61 years of age and leaves to mourn him a wife and eleven children.

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