Lawrence V. Burkett Sr., age 105, passed away peacefully on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2013 in Jacksonville, FL. He was born March 6, 1908 to Gaston and Helen Burkett in Chicora, FL near Lakeland.Larry grew up on a small farm in rural Florida with two brothers and a sister. In his teens, he hitch-hiked across country doing odd jobs, and then enlisted in the Navy where his travels took him to the South Pacific and other exotic places. When Larry left the navy, he was a traveling salesman before moving to Cleveland in the last years of the Depression. It was there he met his wife-to-be Joan Yanchar. After they were married they lived in Jacksonville where Larry worked at the NAS Jax Naval Air Rework Facility. Larry and Joan raised four children in Jacksonville and always had an open door for their children’s friends. After the children moved away he and Joan were able to travel. Their travels included the Caribbean, Italy, and much of the US. Larry took up golf, playing until he was 101, and even made some holes-in-one. The family was a member of the Riverside Methodist Church. Larry is predeceased by his wife of 55 years, Joan, and is survived by one daughter, Jean Burkett Long (Thomas), three sons, Lawrence V. Burkett Jr. (Susan), Roger A. Burkett (Corinne), John W. Burkett (Sara), as well as two grandsons, Lawrence Adam Burkett and Thomas S. Long IV.Services are at Hardage-Giddens Town & Country Funeral Home, 7242 Normandy Blvd., Jacksonville, FL 32205. Visitation for friends and family will be in the chapel on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at 11:00 am with funeral services to follow at 12:00 pm. Interment will be at the nearby Riverside Memorial Park immediately after the funeral services.
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