Burk Burnett Jr.'s funeral notice
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Burk Burnett Jr.'s funeral notice
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Newspaper article from the Fort Worth Star Telegram describing funeral arrangements for Burk Burnett Jr.
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Transcript: Funeral services for Burke Burnett Jr., who died Tuesday night at 12:05 o'clock after an illness of nearly two months, will be held at the residence of his father, Capt. S. B. Burnett, 1424 Summit avenue, Thursday at 4 p.m. Rev. L. D. Anderson, pastor of the First Christian Church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in East Oakwood cemetery.
Active and honorary pallbearers were selected Wednesday. The active pallbearers will be: Robert Hovenkamp, Jess Dunnigan, William Wheeler, Wilbur Hardwick, Walter Wallerich and W. W. Henkel. The honorary pallbearers will be: Sidney L. Samuels, John N. Simpson of Dallas, Tom Yarbrough, Sam Davidson, J. B. Googins, A.B. Case, N.H. Lassiter, Marion Sansom, Eugene Clark, Tom Waggoner, W. D. Reynolds, W. E. Connell, Warren P. Andrews, William H. Hortenstein, Lee Johnson and Dr. W. A. Duringer.
Ill Seven Weeks.
The young man's struggle for life was extraordinary. He was stricken ill seven weeks ago and was moved to All Saints Hospital. After several weeks at the hospital, he was taken back home. Besides the local physicians in charge of the case, several out of town physicians were called here for consultation. These were Dr. Herrick of Chicago, Dr. Thompson of Galveston and Dr. McKeivey of Temple. While he was near death often in his trying illness before the end finally came his mind was perfectly clear most of the time, and at times he himself was hopeful of recovering.
Spent Much Time on Ranch.
No other young man in Fort Worth had a career more full of promis mapped out for him than did young Burnett. He was born with a love of vigorous outdoor life in which his father had been brought up, and he had spent many vacations on his father's King country and Dixon creek ranches. A business education had rounded out his training in the public and private schools of Fort Worth and two years at Castle Heights, the well known preperatory school at Lebanon, Tenn. He was at Lebanon in 1912 and 1913, and he received his more practical training at the Spaulding Business College, Kansas City. He had gone into his father's office and was rapidly mastering the details of the business of Captain Burnett's extensive cattle and land interests.
Prominent in Society.
Young though he was, he had attained a popularity in society and a wide acquaintance and friendship in business circles that would be the pride of a man of more mature years. He was a member of the River Crest and Glen Garden Country Clubs, the Steeplechase Club, taking prominent part as a member of which in the entertainment of visitin gyoung woman through the social season incident to the annual Horse Shew, and he was a membe of the Fort Worth Automobile Club. Young Burnett was born in Fort Worth July 7, 1895. Besides his father and mother, he is survived by a half-brother, Tom Burnett of Fort Worth.
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June 7, 1916
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
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Burk Burnett Jr.'s funeral notice
