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Robert John Burnett

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Robert John Burnett

Birth
Champaign County, Illinois, USA
Death
2 Dec 1968 (aged 76)
Nevada, Story County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Nevada, Story County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 27 Lor 115
Memorial ID
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He was born on 5 Mar 1892 in Somers Township in Champaign County, Illinois. His parents were Robert Taffender Burnett and Anna Marie Ziegler. According to his WW I Draft Registration records, he was medium built and was medium height. He had grey eyes and dark hair.

In his early years, he lived with his parents in Champaign County, Illinois where they lived on his father's family farm in Somer Township about 5 miles north of Urbana, Illinois. He lived with his parents until his marriage in 1913. Sometime after his marriage, they moved to another farm in Warren Township in Story County, Iowa. It appears he lived there until his death in 1968. He was a Farmer his entire life.

He married Greta V. Huddlestun on 10 Aug 1913. Robert and Greta had 6 children (Fern, Robert, Dorothy, George, Florence, Thomas). He died at the age of 76 at 8:15 P.M. on Monday, 2 Dec 1968 in the Des Moines Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. Funeral services were conducted at 2:00 P.M. on Friday, 6 Dec 1968 at the Ryan Funeral Home in Nevada, Iowa. He was buried in Nevada Municipal Cemetery in Nevada, Iowa.

Bio by Tom Richardson
He was born on 5 Mar 1892 in Somers Township in Champaign County, Illinois. His parents were Robert Taffender Burnett and Anna Marie Ziegler. According to his WW I Draft Registration records, he was medium built and was medium height. He had grey eyes and dark hair.

In his early years, he lived with his parents in Champaign County, Illinois where they lived on his father's family farm in Somer Township about 5 miles north of Urbana, Illinois. He lived with his parents until his marriage in 1913. Sometime after his marriage, they moved to another farm in Warren Township in Story County, Iowa. It appears he lived there until his death in 1968. He was a Farmer his entire life.

He married Greta V. Huddlestun on 10 Aug 1913. Robert and Greta had 6 children (Fern, Robert, Dorothy, George, Florence, Thomas). He died at the age of 76 at 8:15 P.M. on Monday, 2 Dec 1968 in the Des Moines Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. Funeral services were conducted at 2:00 P.M. on Friday, 6 Dec 1968 at the Ryan Funeral Home in Nevada, Iowa. He was buried in Nevada Municipal Cemetery in Nevada, Iowa.

Bio by Tom Richardson


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