Jimmie D.

Burke

Jimmie D. Burke, 79, of Champion, Texas was called home on Wednesday, April 28 at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

Funeral services for Jimmie wil l be held Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 10 AM at Champion Baptist Church in Champion, Texas. Pastor Bruce Parsons will officiate the service. Interment will follow at Sweetwater Cemetery in Sweetwater, Texas under the direction of McCoy Funeral Home.

Jimmie was born May 6, 1941 in Sweetwater, Texas to parents William "Bill Pete" Burke and Mary Emma Payn e Burke. He married his wife of 52 years, Janey, on August 31, 1968. Jimmie graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1959 and earned an Industrial Engineering deg ree from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas in 1968. He proudly and honorably served in t h e U.S. Army National Guard of Texas from 1963 to 1969. He started his career in 1968 as an industrial engineer first with Susan Crane Packaging in Dallas, Texas and then with Varo Semiconductors in Garland, Texas. In 1985, Jimmie returned to Nolan County t o start Burke Farms in Champion. He supplied local grocers as well as farmer's markets with hydroponic tomatoes and fresh produce.

Jimmie loved his family, Jane y's pies and cooking, Red Raider sports, classic country music, fly fishing and the outdoors. I n recent years, he could be found enjoying RV life with Janey, fishing in streams across Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado with his beloved dog Lacey by his side. A man of strong faith, he served as a Deacon at Champion Baptist Church beginning in 2000.

Jim m ie leaves behind his cherished wife, Janey, his children and their spouses, Dale and Christy Burke of Rancho Santa Margarita, California, Cody and Terri Burke of Manhattan Beach, California, Joni and Scott Carswell of Austin, Texas, and Stoney and Josefin a Burke of Washington, D.C., as well as his treasured grandchildren, Alyssa, Ryan, Jacob, Lorelei, Dixon, Aiden, Rigby, Benjamin, Matilda, and Theodore.

Jimmie is preceded in death by his father and mother, Bill and Mary Burke of Sweetwater, Texas, as well as his sister and brother-in-law, Billie and Carl Jones of Stamford, Texas.

Pallbearers will be Randall Bankhead, Wendell Bankhead, Tommy Greer, Kary Owens, Wilfred Petty, Don Ware, James Wells, Mark Wright.

Honorary Pallbearer will be Dalton Owens.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Champion Baptist Church or Texan by Natu re (www.texanbynature.org).