DATELINE: Jerseyville

NAME: Robert L. Burch  AGE: 88

DIED: 11:35 p.m. Thursday July 13, 2017 at his home

BORN: July 11, 1929 Fieldon

PARENTS: Alva & Mattie (Phipps) Burch (Both Deceased)

MARRIED: Frances A. Cope   DATE & PLACE: March 23, 1952

OCCUPATION: Retired mold maker at Owens Illinois Glass Works

MILITARY: U.S. Navy Veteran

MEMBERSHIPS: Delhi Baptist Church and Jerseyville Masonic Lodge #394

VISTITATION:  Monday, July 17, 2017 from 4:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.

At Alexander & Gubser Funeral Home

3:45 p.m. Masonic Funeral Rites by Jerseyville Masonic Lodge

FUNERAL:  Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at 10:00

At Alexander & Gubser Funeral Home

Graveside Military Rites by Jerseyville American Legion Post 492

OFFICIANT: Rev. Clyde Meyer

BURIAL:  Kane Cemetery 

MEMORIALS: In Lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Delhi Baptist Church.

SURVIVORS

WIFE: Frances Burch

DAUGHTER: Tamara (Burch) & Jeff Woelfel of Jereyville

DAUGHTER-IN-LAW: Linda Burch

GRANDCHILDREN: Zachary & Heather Hartley, Jerad & Luann Burch, Tyler & Shannon Burch, Lauren (Woelfel) & Matt Savoie, Shelby Woelfel & fiancé Adam Sackmann, and Jonathan Woelfel

GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN: Cole Burch, Grant Burch, and Ryker Burch

BROTHER: Jerry & Joyce Burch of Nutwood

SON-IN-LAW AND HIS WIFE: Bert & Tammy Hartley

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY: Parents, daughter: Deborah Hartley, son: Robert E. Burch, brother: John Burch, sister: Alice Klunk.

ALEXNDER & GUBSER FUNERAL HOME

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