transcription of Newspapers->Deaths->5.32ch-ii.jpg Probably from a Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania newspaper in December of 1926: BEGIN Joseph Burke Many relatives and friends of Andrew and Dolores Thayne Burke will deeply sympathize with them in the irreparable loss of their three-year-old son Joseph who died at the parental home at Jersey Hill on Sunday evening, December 19, 1926, after a short illness with indigestion. The little fellow was an exceedingly bright boy and the bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community in their great loss. The funeral was held Tuesday morning at St. Bonaventures church at Auburn Place with interment in the cemetery there. END transcription of Newspapers->Deaths->5.32ch-ii-2.jpg Probably from a Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania newspaper in December of 1926: BEGIN Joseph Burke. Many friends and relatives of Andrew and Dolores Thayne Burke will deeply sympathize with them in the loss of their three-year-old son, Joseph, who died at the parental home at Auburn Place on Sunday evening, December 19, 1926, after only a few hours illness. The little fellow was an exceptionally bright boy and the bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community in their great loss. The funeral was held Tuesday, Dec. 21, at St. Bonaventure's church at Auburn Place, Mass of the Angels being said by Rev. Father Sherman. The flower bearers were Gerald Thayne, Bernard Burke and John White. The honorary bearers were: Ambrose Burke, John Burke, Paul Thayne and James Thayne. The active bearers being four uncles: John H. Thayne, James Cavanaugh, Thomas Burke and Edward Burke. END From the St. Joseph Magazine in May of 1963: BEGIN A Man To Remember If there is a time when a man who earns his living by using a typewriter has to watch closely what keys his fingers are hitting, it is when he writes about another man who has died. There is the danger that he will whip up a lot of froth which will evaporate almost immediately after it is read. This would be all the more shameful when the deceased is a man who was made of granite. I will not pretend that I have the ability to compose a real monument of words to honor a friend who died recently. Nor do I even think that my friend, Andrew Burke, needs a monument. To my way of thinking he was a great man and great men are a monument by their very lives. But I do want to write of him with affection, humility and with honesty. Mr. Burke did nothing that will cause his name to be remembered outside his family and a small group of friends who knew him during his 72 years, all of which I believe he spent in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania and Ossining, New York. He merely spent his life doing his duty well. He loved his wife and his three children and provided for them to the best of his ability. He treated all men as though he believed they were creatures of the same God who created himself. Without fanfare or introspection he accepted God's will, whether that will placed him high on the hills or deep in a valley. And he was blessed with a high moral sense that never failed him when he had to make a choice between the right and the wrong. Not really much of a recommendation for the world to take notice of Mr. Burke. I met Mr. Burke when I was a boy. He worked for years on the estate owned by a friend of mine in Ossining. He never halted his work to start a conversation. Nevertheless, I and other boys visiting the estate had plenty of conversation with Mr. Burke, because he never failed to stop his tractor or stop his truck if a boy hailed him. I talked to him many times, and strangely enough today I could not quote from any of our moments together. But what does remain is the impression I got of the man. Possibly he never said anything that smacked of wisdom, but he had a lot of wisdom. He must have had because he never said anything foolish. And I cannot remember many men who at times haven't said something ridiculous. He had depth. I know this because he could afford to be quiet when other men found it necessary to say many words to impress the superintendant or the man who owned the estate. He was prudent. Despite invitations extended to him to criticize (boys are capable of such solicitation), Mr. Burke held his own counsel. He had a clean mouth, a pure heart and a healthy mind. I could believe nothing else, because there was no evidence of anything else. But all of these things are indecisive compared with the fact that this man was the type you do not forget. Once he was known, he was destined to be part of your life as long as you live. During my boyhood he was a model for me. He still is. He was what I wanted to be. And unless I can cut everything that is good in myself, he will be what I want to be until I no longer am. I have several such models, the main one being my own father who remains today the greatest man I have ever met. Models are necessary for boys and they remain necessary for men. Not that we need to strive to be exact duplicates of the model. We simply need someone far greater than ourselves, whose essential character we wish to match, even if we fully realize that it is beyond our feeble reach. It is possible that we even fail to duplicate the example of such men, but the example burns on, giving us some light, and it cannot be extinguished. When we make the wrong choice between a good and an evil, we cannot make it without knowing that the Andrew Burkes of this world would have made the right choice. When we attempt to fool someone, or to be clever in any dealings with others, we know that the Burkes found no necessity in their days to do such things. Hurt someone and we ourselves are hurt more deeply by the knowledge that there are people who do no harm to others. The Andrew Burkes are a rod and a chastisement for the rest of us. And even if we do not have the courage or the strength to emulate them, we can thank God that at least we have sufficient intelligence and honesty to recognize superiority and true goodness. The last time I saw Mr. Burke was about seven years ago. He still was on the job, raking leaves. I stopped to talk with him of his health and his family. He was not well, but he indicated that so long as there was work to do and it was his to do, it would be done. Rest he did not seek, but he would accept it when it came. When men like Mr. Burke die, we do pray for them. But if we have a bit of good sense, we realize that they do not need our prayers so much as we need theirs. And with additional good sense, we can offer a prayer that in their new-found wisdom, they will remember us. END transcription of Newspapers->Deaths->5.32ch-i.jpg From a newspaper in March of 1997: BEGIN Marie Burke, an editor at News 33 years, dies Former Daily News Woman's Editor Marie Burke died Friday at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Tarrytown, N.Y. The cause was a heart attack, said her nephew, John Burke. Marie Burke joined the Daily News in 1942, planning to remain just for the summer, but she stayed for 33 years. She worked in all sections of the woman's department before becoming editor in 1969. She retired from The News in 1975. The job she filled was an important one. In addition to producing a virtual river of feature stories every day, the department operated as a major readers' service bureau. In 1968 alone, it fulfilled a total of 1.3 million reader requests for information on fashion, food, beauty aids, home decor and child care. Born in 1920 in Auburn, Pa., Burke graduated from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven in 1941. A wake will be held today and tomorrow at the Waterbury & Kelly Funeral Home, 45 S. Highland Ave., Ossining, N.Y. A funeral Mass will be said Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. in St. Augustine's Church, S. Highland Ave., Ossining, with burial to follow in Auburn, Pa. END transcription of Newspapers->Deaths->5.32ch-i-2.jpg From a newspaper in March of 1997: BEGIN R. Marie Burke, a Croton-on-Hudson resident, died Friday, March 21, 1997, at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center in Sleepy Hollow. She was 76. Miss Burke was the women's editor of the New York Daily News for more than 30 years. She retired in 1977. She was born April 18, 1920, in Auburn, Pa., to Andrew F. and Dolores W. Thayne Burke. She attended Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, Conn. She lived in Ossining for most of her life before moving to Croton 20 years ago. Miss Burke was an active member of St. Augustine's Catholic Church in Ossining for many years, serving as a Eucharistic minister and a member of Right to Life. She is survived by a nephew, John Burke of Buchanan; a niece, Sue Anne Burke of Bethlehem, Pa.; three great-grandnieces and nephews; and two great-great grandnieces and nephews. Four brothers, John Burke, Francis Burke, Joseph Burke and James Burke, died earlier. Visiting hours will be today and tomorrow at Waterbury & Kelly Funeral Home in Ossining. A Funeral Mass will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Augustine's Catholic Church in Ossining. END