Obit: Burley, Marion (1906 - 1964)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Burley, Burge, Olthoff, Kroeze

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI.) March 12, 1964

Burley, Marion (1906 - 4 February 1964)

Funeral services for Mrs. Ros R. Burley, 57, of Seattle, Wash., were held at the Bonney-Watson Chapel in Seattle on February 6, 1964.  Mrs. Burley died February 4, of acute leukemia, after a short illness.

Marion Burge was born in Neillsville in 1906 to Thomas Fremont and Josephine Burge. She was graduated from the teacher’s training class of Neillsville High School and moved to Muskegon, Mich., in 1923.  She later moved to Brookfield, Ill., where she married in 1939.

In 1946, Mr. and Mrs. Burley and their son moved to Seattle, Wash., where she was very active in the Spastic Pre-school and Clinic and the Magnolia Peninsula Garden Club.

She leaves her husband; a son, F. William Burley, now attending the University of Illinois; two sisters, Mrs. Theodore (Leola) Olthoff and Mrs. Harvey (Evelyn) Kroeze, both of Muskegon, Mich.; a brother Floyd F. Burge of Chicago, Ill.; and several cousins in this vicinity.

Mr. and Mrs. Burley were in Neillsville in June, 1963, to attend her class reunion.