Rodney Mahlon Burk

June 5, 1917 registration card
Farm hand for August Plahn in Washington Township, Carroll County.

Rank Private
Service Number 2158186
Branch Army
Unit Casual Detachment 573
Enlistment February 25, 1918
Departure May 16, 1918 at Hoboken, New Jersey on the USS Agamemnon
Residence Winchester, Indiana
Unit Company "I", 130 Infantry USNG
Discharge May 29, 1919

Rodney M. Burk Rodney M. Burk, 74, Logansport, Indiana, a former Winchester resident, died Sunday, November 3, 1968, in Logansport. Born July 11, 1894, to David and Sallie (Fouse) Burk, he was a World War I Veteran and a retired employee of the Logansport State Hospital.

He is survived by his wife, Rose; two sons, Max, New Castle, Delaware; and Gerald, Lafayette; a daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Lynn, Lafayette; three step-daughters, Mrs. Doris Faulkerson, Chicago; Mrs. Sarah Rollins, Logansport; and Mrs. Clara Nisonger, Fort Wayne; a brother, Enos Burk, Winchester; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Snodgrass, Fort Wayne; and Mrs. Evelyn Chandler, Columbia City; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Fisher Funeral Home, Logansport. Graveside services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the New Dayton Cemetery, Ridgeville.

The Star Press, Muncie, Indiana, November 5, 1968