Bernice Burnside

Bernice May (McGaffin) Burnside

Bernice Burnside was born on May 2, 1914 north of Wiota, Iowa in Benton Township to Alex and Ida May (Schmitt) McGaffin. She and her family moved to Lewis in February 1923. She graduated with the Lewis High School Class of 1932. Bernice married Eldon Burnside on March 5, 1937 in Lewis. The couple raised their family while they farmed south of Lewis until 1964. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in March of 1987. Eldon died two years later.
Bernice loved God with all she had, she loved family and neighbors with all she had, and she knew how to love herself appropriately.
Her great depth of love for her family includes her three children; Gary Eldon, James Edward, and Alex William; one daughter-in-law Kathy; six grandchildren, Greg Burnside and his wife Amy, Julie Wise and her husband Dick, Anna Hughes and her husband Jim, Allison Wagner and her husband Travis, Dara Coffey and her husband Dan, and Katie Wagner and her husband Patrick; fourteen great grandchildren, Cody Michael, Kayli Elaine, Sawyer Wilbur, Garrett James, Drake James, Kade Nicholas, Julianna Madelyn, Benjamin Alex, Ellen Kay, Thomas Wade, Bernice Vivian, Margaret Katherine, Hailee Morgan, Holden Patrick; and many friends.
Bernice was preceded in death by her husband Eldon in 1989; her daughter Carmen May in 1961; her parents, Alex and Ida McGaffin in 1966; her sisters Belva Smiley in 2004 and Beulah Marshall in 2006 and Betty Sanny in 2012.

IN REMEMBRENCE
Bernice Burnside

BORN
May 2, 1914
Benton Township, North of Wiota, Iowa

DATE OF PASSING
September 1, 2013
Atlantic, Iowa

FUNERAL SERVICE
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Ten thirty in the Morning
United Congregational Methodist Church
Lewis, Iowa

OFFICIATING
Pastor Nadine Aydt
United Congregational Methodist Church
Lewis, Iowa

TEXTS
Ecclesiastes 3: 1 – 8 from the King James Bible

MUSICAL SELECTIONS
“Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” ~ Prelude
“Somewhere Over The Rainbow” ~ Randall Breckerbaumer
“Beyond the Sunset”
“Ave Maria”
“God Be With You “Till We Meet Again” ~ Postlude

MUSICIANS
Instrumentals by Sharon Breckerbaumer and Kathy Govig
Soloist Randall Breckerbaumer

CASKET BEARERS
Greg Burnside Dick Wise Jim Hughes
Travis Wagner Dan Coffey Pat Wagner

COMMITTAL SERVICE
Oakwood Cemetery ~ Lewis, Iowa

FLOWER COMMITTEE
Tom and Betty Pope and Bob and Emily Jobe

LUNCHEON
Bernice’s family invites friends to join them for a luncheon
at the church following the committal service.

MEMORIAL
The family requests memorials may be designated for
Hitchcock House and Ladies Cemetery Association in Lewis.