Jessie Viola Strimple Attebury Burton

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Obituary- Burton, Jessie

Jessie Attebury Burton
ROSSVILLE -- Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the United Methodist Church in Rossville for Jessie Attebury Burton, 98, Bolivar, Mo., who died Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1993, at a Bolivar nursing home.

She was born Dec. 18, 1894, in Carrol in Greenwood County, the daughter of Frank E. and Clara Strausbaugh Strimple. She grew up in the Rossville area and later lived in Meckling, S.D., and Fair Play and Buffalo, Mo., before she moved to Bolivar.

Mrs. Burton was a life member of the United Methodist Church in Rossville where she taught Sunday school classes more than 40 years. She was a 50-year member of Amaryllis Chapter No. 321 of Order of Eastern Star in Rossville.

She was married to Thomas H. Attebury in September 1915 in Rossville. He died Sept. 6, 1952. She was married to Buel Burton in June 1954 in Topeka. He died in September 1979.

Survivors include four stepdaughters, Jeanne Barta, Napa, Calif., Carol Hubert, Vermillion, S.D., and Dianne Finks, Arlington, Va., and Norma F. Prough, San Diego, Calif.; two stepsons, Harold Burton, Meckling, S.D., and Leroy Burton, Maitland, Mo.; 23 stepgrandchildren; and several stepgreat-grandchildren.

Mrs. Burton was cremated. Inurnment will be in Rossville Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the United Methodist Church in Rossville. Murray Funeral Home in Bolivar, Mo., is in charge of arrangements.