Kimble County, TX - Obituaries, Burt, Andrew, 1993
Thursday, April 20, 2000

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The Junction Eagle, Thursday, February 4, 1993
(with permission of publisher)

                                 Andrew Burt rites Thursday

  Funeral services for Andrew Matt Burt of Junction will be held Thursday afternoon at
2:00 o'clock in the Aubrey-Fife Funeral chapel with Lundy Hooten and James Murphy
officiating.  Military graveside rites will follow in Junction cemetery.
  Andrew, the oldest child of John Matt Burt and Bessie Lee Allsup Burt, was born December
16, 1922, on Cajac Creek, in Kimble County.  He attended the Evergreen and Junction schools
and was a cowboy on ranches in Kimble and Edwards counties before entering the U.S. Army
in February 1943.  His military career spanned two decades in many areas of the globe, ending
March 1, 1965, when he retired from active duty at Fort Hood, Texas.
  A member of the 25th Infantry Division, he served in the South Pacific during World War II.
He received a Purple Heart for combat injuries received at Belate Pass.  He served in the
Army of Occupation in Europe, Japan and Korea.  He was recruiting officer in Brady, Big
Springs and Dallas.  Andrew's last tour of duty was at Fort Hood, where he was N.C.O. in charge
of the Apprehension Branch of the Provost Marshall's office.
  Andrew was recipient of the Combat Infantry Badge, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Good Conduct
Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two Bronze Stars and a Bronze Arrowhead, National 
Defense Medal, WWII Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal with a Bronze Star, Army of 
Occupation Medal, United Nations Medal, Korean Campaing Medal and Philippine Presidential 
Citation Medal.
  After retiring from military service, he lived in the Killeen area and worked for Lone Star
gas and was an independent insurance agent.  He returned to the Junction area in 1975.  He was
a member of the Baptist Church.
  Survivors include his wife, the former Mary Herbert Denman, two daughters, Hyancith
Burt-Easton of Austin and Tanya Jo Sutton of Rio Vista; three sons, Andrew Matt Burt, Jr.
of Fort Worth, James C. Burt of Fort Knox, Kentucky and Fane Britt Burt of Seagoville.
  Also surviving are two sisters, Margaret Gaver and Frederica Wyatt of Junction, two brothers,
Fane L. Burt of San Antonio and Britton A. Burt of Irving; four grandchildren, Timothy Matt
Burt, James Eugene Burt, Ed and Melissa Sutton.  Two favorite uncles, Robert and H.C. Allsup
of Junction also survive.
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Died February 1, 1993.
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