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Burr Atkinson

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Burr Atkinson

Birth
Saint Anthony, Marshall County, Iowa, USA
Death
Dec 1985 (aged 87)
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Clemons, Marshall County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Burr Atkinson, 87, of Marshalltown, died last week Monday at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.

Services were Saturday from the Pursel-Davis Funeral Home with Rev David Lewis officiating. Burial followed in the Clemons Cemetery.

Born May 14, 1898, in Saint Anthony, he was a son of John and Laura Blackburn Atkinson. He was first married to Neva Davis on December 8, 1920 with she preceding him in death in 1929. He married Lila Smith on January 10, 1931 in Liscomb and she survives.

Other survivors include a daughter Arlene Tonne of Marshalltown; two brothers, Glenn Atkinson and Earl Atkinson, both of Marshalltown, and two sisters, Orpha (Mrs Vinton) Davis of Clemons and Coleen (Mrs Delbert) Liming of Janesville, Iowa.

He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

Mr Atkinson was reared and educated in the Saint Anthony and Clemons area and graduated from Clemons High School in 1918. He moved as a child to a farm southwest of Clemons and then as an adult farmed there until moving to Marshalltown in 1985.

January 1, 1986 State Center Enterprise.
Burr Atkinson, 87, of Marshalltown, died last week Monday at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.

Services were Saturday from the Pursel-Davis Funeral Home with Rev David Lewis officiating. Burial followed in the Clemons Cemetery.

Born May 14, 1898, in Saint Anthony, he was a son of John and Laura Blackburn Atkinson. He was first married to Neva Davis on December 8, 1920 with she preceding him in death in 1929. He married Lila Smith on January 10, 1931 in Liscomb and she survives.

Other survivors include a daughter Arlene Tonne of Marshalltown; two brothers, Glenn Atkinson and Earl Atkinson, both of Marshalltown, and two sisters, Orpha (Mrs Vinton) Davis of Clemons and Coleen (Mrs Delbert) Liming of Janesville, Iowa.

He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

Mr Atkinson was reared and educated in the Saint Anthony and Clemons area and graduated from Clemons High School in 1918. He moved as a child to a farm southwest of Clemons and then as an adult farmed there until moving to Marshalltown in 1985.

January 1, 1986 State Center Enterprise.


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