{"id":6659,"date":"2019-02-09T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:23:30","slug":"william-bill-r-burke-elkader-iowa-february-9-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2019\/02\/william-bill-r-burke-elkader-iowa-february-9-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"William (Bill) R. Burke, Elkader Iowa, February 9, 2019,"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"William (Bill) R. Burke<\/strong> 78, of Elkader Iowa, went to be with his Lord on February 9,\u00a0 2019, after a courageous battle with Lewy Body Dementia.<\/p>\n

Son of Raymond F Burke and Leona L (Wagner) Burke was born May 1, 1940 at Mercy Hospital in Oelwein, Iowa.\u00a0 He attended country school with his mother as his teacher and graduated from Fairbank High School, in 1957, at the age of sixteen. \u00a0He went on to attend Upper Iowa University in Fayette, Iowa where he graduated in 1961.\u00a0 In the fall of 1961, he began his teaching career at West Central School in Maynard.\u00a0 For thirty-five years, he taught 7th<\/sup> & 8th<\/sup> grade Biology, Earth Science, Drama and Hunters Safety.\u00a0 His passion for the outdoors inspired him to start the Outdoorsmanship class, which lead to the building of the Outdoor Education Center of which he and his students spent countless hours learning about the outdoors and our environment.<\/p>\n

Bill supported and was very active in multiple conservation and wildlife programs.\u00a0 He served on the Fayette County Conservation Board and was a founding member of the Fairbank Gun Club.<\/p>\n

On August 6,<\/sup> 1983, he married Corene Joann Reimer-Larson at Peace United Church of Christ in Elkader, Iowa.\u00a0 Together they traveled the world.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The countless memories they shared, included nineteen winters together on South Padre Island, Texas.<\/p>\n

The memories Bill shared with his Family and Friends at the cabin, will be cherished by all that loved him.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his wife Corene Joann Burke of Elkader; four children, Michelle M (Shelli Burke) (John) Walke, Claremore, OK, William Hunter (Janice) Burke, Altoona, IA, Angela M (Larson) (Ronny) Lenth, Hiawatha, IA, and Andrew P Larson, Watertown, WI;\u00a0 eight grandchildren, Eric (Heather) Walke, Lyndon (Ashley) Walke, Courtney Lenth, Zach (Renee) Lenth, Cayla Burke, Caleb Burke, Dylan Larson and Cade Burke; \u00a0four great grandchildren,\u00a0 Emerson Walke, Ella Walke, Callan Walke and Finley Lenth; sister, Ann (Dave) Ure; brother, Pat (Dianne) Burke; sister-in-law, Doris (Raymond) Dryer; \u00a0numerous nieces, nephews and friends.<\/p>\n

Bill was proceeded in death by his father, Raymond F Burke, mother\u00a0 Leona L (Wagner) Burke, father-in-law Orville CJ Reimer, mother-in-law Beulah M (Oldham) Reimer.<\/p>\n

Visitation<\/strong>: 4 to 7 PM, Tuesday February 12, 2019, at Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and after 10 at the church on Wednesday<\/p>\n

Funeral Services<\/strong>: 11:00 AM on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 at Peace United Church of Christ in Elkader with Rev. Jon Haack officiating<\/p>\n

Interment<\/strong>: East Side Cemetery, Elkader, Iowa<\/p>\n

Leonard-Grau Funeral Home & Cremation Service is assisting the family. Online condolences may be left with www.graufuneralhomes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William (Bill) R. Burke 78, of Elkader Iowa, went to be with his Lord on February 9,\u00a0 2019, after a courageous battle with Lewy Body Dementia. Son of Raymond F Burke and Leona L (Wagner) Burke was born May 1, 1940 at Mercy Hospital in Oelwein, Iowa.\u00a0 He attended country school with his mother as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6679,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions\/6679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}