Obit: Burlingame, Ross (1906 - 1978)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Burlingame, Lund, Gohde, Embke, Carey

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 6/15/1978

Burlingame, Ross (25 May 1906 – 31 May 1978)

Ross Burlingame, 72, Merrillan, died Wednesday, May 31, in Memorial Hospital at Black River Falls. He was born May 25, 1906, in Montana, to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Burlingame. He moved to Jackson County and farmed. He was employed in Eau Claire and at Nelson Muffler in Black River Falls. He married Mary Lund on January 31, 1932, in Eau Claire.

Survivors include his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Rosella Gohde of Black River Falls and Mrs. Nancy Embke of Neillsville, two brothers, Lynn of Black River Falls and Dale of Merrillan, ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Services were held Friday afternoon in the United Methodist Church in Merrillan with the Rev. Calvin W. Carey officiating, with burial in East Lawn Cemetery at Alma Center. The Jensen Funeral Home at Hixton was in charge of arrangements.