BIRTH 21 MAR 1928 • Bison, Rush County, Kansas, USA

DEATH 17 NOV 1945 • Sterling, Rice, Kansas, USA

Joan Pauline Burkhead was born on March 21, 1928, in Bison, Kansas. Her mother, Lydia, died in childbirth with baby Bernadette when Joan was just 4 years old. Walter A. McFerrin, was 26 and wife Mildred, was 25 when they became foster parents forJoan and her sister, Joy, who lived with the McFerrins also.  In total Joan had six sisters and one brother.Joan died as a teenager on November 17, 1945, in Sterling, Kansas, and was buried there as is her birth father, William P. Burkhead.

Below is the information on Joan Burkhead’s mother, Lydia Estelle(Hinkle) Burkhead, who died in childbirth when Joan was 4 years old.

Birth: 1892 Rush County Kansas, USA Death: 1932 Reno County Kansas, USA Lydia is the daughter of Johannes and Catharine Hinkel. Lydia’s children were: Millicent Winifred Burkhead, Elouise Mildred Burkhead Kabler, Almagene Vivian Burkhead Dimler, Geneva LaJoy “Joy” Burkhead Hirschman, Joan Pauline Burkhead, Junior Lee Burkhead and Bernadette Burkhead. Lydia died in childbirth with Bernadette, who also died, and they were buried together. They died in 1932. She was born in 1892 not 1928 (what the grave marker says).– Information provided by Donna Lowe (Lydia’s granddaughter).   Family links: Parents: Johannes Conrad Hinkel (1852 – 1920) Catherine Haas Hinkel (1858 – 1928) Spouse: William P Burkhead (1891 – 1948)* Children: Joan Pauline Burkhead (1928 – 1945)* Siblings: Elizabeth Hinkel Scheuerman (1882 – 1934)** Katherine May Hinkel Newman (1888 – 1979)** Lydia Estelle Hinkel Burkhead (1892 – 1932) Martha Irene Hinkel Appel (1896 – 1936)* *Calculated relationship **Half-sibling Inscription: Infant daughter. Burial: Lone Star Cemetery Bison Rush County Kansas, USA Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?] Created by: LindaB Record added: Apr 25, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 36341457