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| Robert P. Burton |
| Date Of Birth: | Wednesday, May 12, 1920 |
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| Date Of Death: | Monday, January 16, 2012 |
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Robert Paul Burton,
age 91 of Shippensburg, formerly of Palmyra, died on Monday,
January 16, 2012 at Chambersburg Hospital. He was born Wednesday,
May 12, 1920 in Alligator, Mississippi, the youngest child of the
late John Thomas Burton and Rosa Kinard (Wyse) Burton.
Bob graduated from
Duncan High School in 1937 and attended business school in Bowling
Green, KY for one year. He started his first job as an office boy
at True Temper Corp. in 1938. He retired from the same
company as Plant Manager in 1960.
He served in the U.S.
Army Infantry in World War II.
He was preceded in
death by his wife Ruby Marguerite (Williams) Burton to whom he was
married for 67 years at the time of her death in 2006. Bob is
survived by his daughter, Sheila Malone, of Walnut Bottom, PA and
his son, Robert Paul Burton, Jr., and his wife Virginia (Gene), of
Jefferson, OH; and a grandson, Christopher Alan Malone. Bob was
preceded in death by his six siblings.
Bob, like his wife
before him, donated his body to medical science through the
Humanity's Gift Program. Professional arrangements are being
handled by Dugan Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc.,
Shippensburg.
Memorial contributions
may be made to First United Methodist Church, Memorial Music
Fund, 520 East Birch Street, Palmyra, PA 17078.
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