Funeral services for (Ruby) Jane Kincaid Burkhart, 78, of Dallas were held July 10, 2010, at First Baptist Church of Dallas. Interment followed at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas.

The Rev. Eric Williams officiated.

Mrs. Burkhart died of multiple myeloma cancer July 7 in Wylie.

She was born Oct. 12, 1931, in Abilene to William Lee Kincaid and Leah Naomi Hatton. She married Albert Elza Burkhart of Ridgeley, W.V.,  May 24, 1957, in Honea Path, S.C. They lived in Michigan and Fort Worth before settling in Mesquite for the last 37 years of Mr. Burkhart’s life. Mrs. Burkhart then moved to a retirement village in Dallas.

Survivors include son, Mike Burkhart and his wife Roxane of Ashburn, Va.; daughter, Brenda Gammage and her husband Tom, who reside overseas; daughter, Rebecca Gruis and her husband Dennis of Forney; son, David Burkhart and his wife Michella of Wylie; eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; sister, Dorothy Book and her husband George of Kingsland; and brother, William H. Kincaid and his wife Audette of Sanger. 

She was preceded in death by her husband of 46 years, Albert Burkhart; and sisters, Jean Pope and Kay Leach.

 

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