Nancy Sparling Burkhardt - Madison Parish, Louisiana 
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Nancy Sparling Burkhardt - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Post February 24, 2001

Nancy Sparling Burkhardt died Saturday, Feb. 24, 2001, at Mississippi Baptist Medical 
Center in Jackson. She was 75.

Mrs. Burkhardt was a native of Little Rock and had lived in Tallulah. She studied music 
at Louisiana State University and in Chicago. She was a newspaper reporter in Tallulah 
and Fayetteville, Ark. She was a resident of Warren County for the past 40 years. She 
retired as a paralegal with the Vicksburg Hospital and served as chairman of the 
Warren County Election Commission for 24 years. She was a member of Church of the Holy 
Trinity.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles E. and Mary Coleman Sparling.

She is survived by her husband, E.C. Burkhardt of Vicksburg; three sons, Charles E. 
Burkhardt of Starkville, Richard W. Burkhardt of Columbus and Michael P. Burkhardt of 
Auburn, Ala.; a brother, Arthur E. Sparling of Tallulah; five grandchildren, two 
great-grandchildren and other relatives.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Fisher-Riles Funeral Home with the Rev. Bronson 
Bryant officiating. Burial will follow at Green Acres Memorial Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the service Tuesday at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be Mike Gettinger, Gene Parker, Bryum Cunningham, Motor Carr, Bobby 
Bailess and Richard George.

Honorary pallbearers will be Connie Williams, Doug Hassell, Dr. Chad Oliver, Earl Brasfield, 
Landman Teller Jr., Dr. W.K. Purks, Oren Bailess, Bud Tacke, Raymond May, Johnny Nassour 
and Vance Barnes.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 1193, Vicksburg, MS 39181-1193.