Sarah Evelyn Burke

Sarah Evelyn Stevenson Burke, 90, of Jonesboro, passed from this life on Friday July 23, 2010 at Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House. She was a homemaker and an avid reader. She was a very active member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, where she was famous for her deviled eggs and her secret ingredient angel food cake. She was born and raised in Marianna on Dec. 3, 1919. Sarah married Robert Burke in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Marianna in 1943. Sarah was preceded in death by her husband, Robert William Burke; her parents, John Eberle and Evelyn Arrington Stevenson; and a daughter, Frances Burke Thomas. Survivors include a son, Robert William Burke Jr. of Paris, France; a daughter and her husband, Eberle and W.E. "Bubba" Grimmer III of Jonesboro; one grandchild, Arrington Lyle Grimmer; and a sister Frances Susan Bartenstein of Warrenton, Va. Church services will be held 9 a.m. Monday at St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Graveside committal services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Cedar Heights in Marianna with Jesse Perkins officiating the services. Arrangements are under the direction of Roller-Farmers Union Funeral Home of Jonesboro. No visitation is planned. Honorary pallbearers will include Barbara Feeser, Barbara Keller, Carol Hinck, Kitty Thompson, Frannie Replogle, Susie Grommet, Anna Finley and Meg Nelson. The family requests lasting memorials be sent to either, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 531 W. College Avenue, Jonesboro, Ark. 72401 or to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis Tenn. 38105. Online guestbook www.rollerfuneralhomes.com.