Letha Miller Burkett

Burlingame, Kansas -

    Letha Miller Burkett, 85, Burlingame, died Monday, Sept. 25, 2000 at a Topeka hospital.

    Mrs. Burkett worked at Osage Paper Products in Osage City for several years.

    She was born May 15, 1915 in Burlingame, the daughter of William J. and Iola Tindell Miller.  She was raised in Fostoria and attended Burlingame schools.

    Mrs. Burkett was a member of the Burlingame Federated Church and the Ladies Auxiliary to the Gene and Elroy Schenck Post No. 7584 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Burlingame.

    She married W.B. York.  They were divorced.  She later married Edwin E. Burkett.  He preceded her in death March 23, 1989.  A son, Wallace D. York, preceded her in death in 1967.

    Survivors include two sons, Edwin “Eddie” Burkett, Scranton, and Bill York, Vassar; a daughter Cheryl Kay Shatluck, Knob Noster, MO, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

    Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Burlingame Cemetery in Burlingame.  Mrs. Burkett will lie in state from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.  Wednesday at Carey Funeral Home in Burlingame.  The casket will remain closed.

    Memorial contributions may be made to the Burlingame Federated Church or to the American Heart Association, and sent in care of the funeral home.

Obituary reproduced courtesy of Edwin Burkett.