In Memory

Robert Burr

Robert Burr

Robert Dexter Burr died Tuesday, February 10, 2009, in Fort Smith.  He was born March 19, 1942, in Boise, Idaho.  He was the retired co-owner of Energy Leasing Services Inc., a member of Our Redeemer Luthern Church, founding board member of Heart to Heart Pregnancy Support Center, past president of Arkansas Right to Life and West Ark Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.  He was a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War and received the Mary Rose Doe Award and the Silver Beaver Award.

Bob was survived by his wife, Marsha; a daughter, Amy Gehrke of White Fish Bay, Wis.; his mother Merle Shellenbarger of Boise; a brother, Michael Burr of Grand Junction, Colo.; a stepsister, Jeanne Fitzgerald of Boise; a stepbrother, Gary Shellenbarger of Albany, N.Y.; and two grandchildren.