Funeral services for B.F. Burt, 75, of Afton were held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 29 in Afton Methodist church. Rev. Luther Porter, Baptist minister from Paducah, officiated.
Mr. Burt passed away shortly before 10 a.m. Sunday, November 27 in the Lubbock Methodist Hospital following a lengthy illness. He had been in failing health the past three years, and was hospitalized in Lubbock several times. He had only been there one day when he passed away.
Burnest F. Burt was born in Arkansas, October 8, 1902 and had lived more than 50 years in Dickens County, having lived near Afton since then. For the past 27 years he lived on his farm 5 1/2 miles northeast of Afton. He was married to the former Miss Marian Gates, November 23, 1935 in Clovis, NM.
Survivors include his wife, Marian, one sister, Mrs. Eva Powell of Plainview and a number of nieces and nephews.
Serving as pallbearers were Ray Bateman, Clay Styles, Dave Poteet, Pete Knight, Coy Morris and Ralph Marshal.
Seigler Funeral Home in Matador was in charge of arrangements and burial was in Afton Cemetery.
©The Texas Spur, December 8, 1977
Graveside funeral services for Marian Burt, 99, of Spur, were held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, November 27, at the Afton Cemetery. Officiating was Tom Taylor, Edler of the Primitive Baptist Church at Crosbyton, Texas. Interment was in the Afton Cemetery under the direction of Seigler Funeral Home of Matador.
Mrs. Burt passed away Tuesday, November 14, at Dickens County Nursing Home in Spur. Marian Velma Gates Burt was born August 10, 1907, at Afton. She was the daughter of William Eugene Gates, and Leotia Harvey Gates, who settled in Afton Community about 1890.
She was married to Burnest F. Burt in 1935, at Clovis, N.M. They made their home near Afton for many years, until Mr. Burt�s death on November 25, 1977. She then lived in Matador for several years, and later in Crosbyton and Spur.
She worked with her husband on the family ranch, and later was a telephone operator at Roaring Springs and Post Mistress at Afton. She was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church at Crosbyton.
She was preceded in death by her husband, and by two nephews, L.A. and Donald Gates, and is survived by: two nephews, Ed Gates of San Marcos, Texas, and Jimmy Gates of Mesa, Arizona; and a niece, Patsy Gates Kimbrough, of Austin, Texas.
©The Texas Spur, Thursday, November 23, 2006, page A9
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