TIPTON COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Tommie Pavten Burk 1954
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Long Illness Fatal To Tommie Burk
 
Tommie Pavten Burk, an outstanding citizen of Munford, died at 2:45 p.m. Sunday in
the Baptist Hospital, Memphis. He has been sick for three years. He was 54.

A native of Summer, Miss., Mr. Burk lived in his native state until moving to
Munford nine years ago. His occupation was farming. He was a Baptist.

Services were conducted by Rev. W. L. McCrackin, assisted by Rev. Joe Edmondson,
at 3 p.m. Monday in the Munford Baptist Church. Burial, under the direction of the
Munford Funeral Home, was in Helen Crigger Cemetery.

Mr. Burk leaves his wife, Mrs. Beulah Burk; three sons, John Burk, Payton Burk and
James Burk of Munford; four daughters, Mrs. Russell Hale of Barnwell, S. C., Mrs.
Artie Martin and Mrs. James Timbs of Munford and Mrs. Earl Jones of Memphis; three
brothers, John Wiley Burk and Will Burk of Memphis and James Ray Burk of Little
Rock, Ark., and three sisters, Mrs. Leona Hollowell of Memphis, Mrs. Lydie
Yarbrough of near Webb, Miss., and Mrs. E. D. Martin of Munford. He also leaves 11
grandchildren.

Source:  Obituary Covington Leader, March 17, 1954 
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Tommy Burke Tommy Burke, retired farmer of Munford, Tenn., formerly of Sumner,
Miss., died yesterday at Baptist Hospital. He was 54.  Mr. Burke was born at
Sumner and had lived at Munford the past nine years. He was a Baptist.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Beulah Burke; three sons, John, Payton and James Burke of
Munford; four daughters, Mrs. Russell Hale of Barnwell, S. C., Mrs. Artie Martin
and Mrs. James Timbes of Munford and Mrs. Earl Jones of Memphis: two brothers,
John W. and Will Burke of Memphis, and three sisters. Mrs. Leone Hollowell of
Memphis, Mrs. Lyde Yarbrough of Webb. Miss., and Mrs. E. D. Martin of Munford.

Services at 3 p.m. today at Munford Baptist Church, Rev. Joe Edmondson and Rev. W.
L. McCracken officiating. Burial in Helen Crigger Cemetery at Munford. Haddad
Funeral Home, Munford, in charge.


Source:  Obituary Commercial Appeal, March 14, 1954 
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Card of Thanks Word can not express the gratitude we feel in our hearts wo our
many friends for your many deeds of kindness during the years of the illness and
at the time of the death of our loved one, Tommie Burk.  We especially thank Dr.
A. S. Witherington Jr. of Munford and the doctors and the nurses at the Baptist
hospital for their untiring efforts in ministering to him.  We extend our
heartfelt thanks to the Haddad Funeral Home and to our many friends for the
beautiful floral offerings.  May God richly bless each of you. MRS. BEULAH BURK,
Wife JAMES BURK PAYTON BURK JOHN D. BURK, Sons MRS. RUSSEL HALE MRS. ARTIE MARTIN
MRS. JAMES TIMBS MRS. EARL JONES, Daughters

Source:  The Covington Leader, March 1954