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Author: MargieRoopPearce
Surnames: Zerkel, Burdg, Fields, Sauers, Martin, Croy, Doke
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Decatur Daily Democrat, Adams Co, IN; Friday, 14 June 1996
Marie Zerkel, 88, Berne, died at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in Swiss Village of heart failure
after a long illness.
She was born on March 11, 1908 in Caddo County, Oklahoma, to Willis M. and Rachel
Fields Burdg. She married O. Kenneth Zerkel on December 19, 1925; he died in 1952.
She was a former office worker at Dunbar Furniture in Berne and was a bookkeeper for
the Berne IGA grocery for many years. She was a member of the United Methodist Missionary
Society and Calvary United Metodist (sic) Church of Linn Grove.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Wayne (Kathleen) Sauers, rural Decatur, and Mrs.
Larry (Sherryl) Martin, Logansport; four sons, Gene Zerkel, Anchorage, Alaska; James M.
Zerkel, Joplin, Missouri; Jerry L. Zerkel, Little Rock, Arkansas; and Ronald B. Zerkel,
Fort Myers, Florida; 30 grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren; and
two great-great-grandchildren.
Deceased are two brothers, Gilbert and Wayne Burdg, and two sisters, Bessie Croy and
Lucy Doke.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Calvary United Methodist Church, with
burial in MRE Cemetery, Berne. Visiting hours are until 9 tonight and from 9 a.m. - noon
Saturday in Yager-Kirchhofer Funeral Home, Berne, and from 1-2 p.m. Saturday in the
church.
Preferred memorials are to the church.
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