In Memory Of
Marylou Carlson Burges
1917
2008
Marylou Carlson Burges
January 12, 1917 — March 21, 2008
Marylou Carlson Burges was born January 12, 1917 in Grand Island, Nebraska, the only child of Luther Martin Carlson and Lorraine Loretta Gurney, and died at Midland Hospice House on Good Friday, March 21, 2008. She was 91.
She came to Washington, D.C. in 1941 where she worked for the War Department under General Groves on the Manhattan Project, traveling between the east coast and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
On Christmas Day, 1941, soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she married Howard Benjamin Burges a few weeks before he was deployed to the South Pacific for three years during WWII.
In their 61 years of marriage, they lived in Arizona, California, Washington State, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, New York, Kansas, and for a time in England and New Zealand.
An avid reader, Marylou finished her last book, a biography of Harry Truman, in December.
She is preceded in death by her husband, who died in 2003.
She is survived by their daughter, Cheryl Burges Rowh, of Topeka, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren: Carson and wife Amy Rowh, Kearney, NE; Sonrisa Rowh, Kansas City, MO; Sarah Rowh, son Josiah, Topeka; also one sister-in-law, many nieces and nephews.
Services will be held Saturday, April 12, at 10 a.m. in the Jellison Chapel at Topeka Presbyterian Manor, where they lived for over 20 years. Private inurnment will take place in Grand Island Cemetery at Grand Island, Nebraska.
Memorial contributions may be sent to Heifer Project Int. (World Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72202), Shawnee Public Library, or the Rescue Mission.
She came to Washington, D.C. in 1941 where she worked for the War Department under General Groves on the Manhattan Project, traveling between the east coast and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
On Christmas Day, 1941, soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she married Howard Benjamin Burges a few weeks before he was deployed to the South Pacific for three years during WWII.
In their 61 years of marriage, they lived in Arizona, California, Washington State, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, New York, Kansas, and for a time in England and New Zealand.
An avid reader, Marylou finished her last book, a biography of Harry Truman, in December.
She is preceded in death by her husband, who died in 2003.
She is survived by their daughter, Cheryl Burges Rowh, of Topeka, three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren: Carson and wife Amy Rowh, Kearney, NE; Sonrisa Rowh, Kansas City, MO; Sarah Rowh, son Josiah, Topeka; also one sister-in-law, many nieces and nephews.
Services will be held Saturday, April 12, at 10 a.m. in the Jellison Chapel at Topeka Presbyterian Manor, where they lived for over 20 years. Private inurnment will take place in Grand Island Cemetery at Grand Island, Nebraska.
Memorial contributions may be sent to Heifer Project Int. (World Ave., Little Rock, Ark. 72202), Shawnee Public Library, or the Rescue Mission.
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
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