Edwin Floyd Burkhart
(1913-2000)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Pauline Catherine Homan

Edwin Floyd Burkhart 1 2 3

  • Born: 13 Nov 1913, Exeter Twp., Berks, PA 2
  • Marriage (1): Pauline Catherine Homan
  • Died: 4 Aug 2000, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA at age 86 2
  • Buried: Reiffton: Forest Hills Memorial Park, Berks, PA 2 3

   FamilySearch ID: GM5D-HLL.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1940 in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA. 4 The 1940 census recorded at 535 Birch Street: Edmin [sic, as indexed] Burkhart, knitter in hosiery mill, 26, living with wife Pauline, 25; son Robert, 7; son David, 4; and daughter Barbara, 2. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania. They lived in the same place in 1935.

2. Obituary: Reading Eagle: obituary of Edwin F. Burkhart on 6 Aug 2000 in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA. 3 Edwin F. Burkhart, 86, of 143 Fairmount Ave., Linstead, was dead on arrival Friday at 7:50 p.m. in Reading Hospital.

He was the husband of Clara P.S. (Turbush) Burkhart.

Born in Exeter Township, he was a son of the late Floyd H. and Mary L. (Mull) Burkhart.

He was employed for 12 years as a full-fashion knitter by Rosedale Knitting Mills, Laureldale. He then worked for 21 years as a supervisor of the building and grounds department of the Exeter School District, retiring in 1979.

Burkhart was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Gibraltar.

He is survived by a son, Robert M., Pflugerville, Texas, and two stepsons, Harold J. Snyder, Laramie, Wyo., and Ward R. Snyder, Cheynne, Wyo.

Other survivors include a sister, Ida M. (Burkhart) Hafer, West Wyomissing.

There are also 15 grandchildren, three stepgrandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, two stepgreat-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.

Burkhart was predeceased by a son, David Burkhart, and a daughter, Barbara (Burkhart) Bortz.

Services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Lutz Funeral Home Inc. Burial will be in Forest Hills Memorial Park, Reiffton.


Edwin married Pauline Catherine Homan, daughter of Merle Claude Homan Sr. and Mary Louise Bernhart. (Pauline Catherine Homan was born on 29 Dec 1914 in Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA and died on 11 Nov 1997 in Tucson, Pima, AZ 5 6.)


Sources


1 Morning Call (Allentown, PA), 12 Apr 1997, page 110. Obituary of David M. Burkhart.

2 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122062569.

3 Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) (Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.), 6 Aug 2000, obituary of Edwin F. Burkhart.

4 1940 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQJ3-K6B Pauline Burkhart in household of Edmin Burkhart, Ward 11, Reading, Reading City, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 70-50, sheet 2A, line 11, family 23.

5 Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ), 13 Nov 1997, page 16. Obituary of Pauline C. Hardy.

6 Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) (Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.), 12 Nov 1997, page B-4. Obituary of Pauline C. Hardy.



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