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Obit submitted by Martha Reddout
Graveside services for Glester Lee Burkhart will be held Sunday at 2:00 p.m. In the Mt. Zion Cemetery, Thackerville. Eddie Gibson will direct the services.
Mr. Burkhart was born November 12, 1932, in Marietta, the son of Todd and Dottie Burkhart, and died November 14, 1991, in the Veterans Administration Hospital, Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Mr. Burkhart attended school at Thackerville and had made his home in Theodosia, Missouri, since 1977. A veteran of the Vietnam Conflict, he was employed as a salesman. Mr. Burkhart married Gladys LaRue on March 26, 1979. He was a member of Liberty Baptist Church, Isabella, Missouri.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gladys Burkhart of the home; his father, Todd Burkhart of Ardmore; three sons, Glester Burkhart, Jr. Of Killeen, Texas, Mark Burkhart of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Toby Burkhart of Ardmore; two brothers, Kenneth Colston of Lovington, New Mexico, and Don Burkhart of Marietta; and four sisters, Patty Abney of Noble, Velma Murry of Watauga, Texas, Dorothy Gibson of Bandalia, Illinois, and Connie Burkhart of Ardmore.
Mr. Burkhart was preceded in death by his mother, Dottie Burkhart; and a brother, J.D. Burkhart.
Source: Marietta Monitor, 6 Dec 1991, page 4