Extracted from The Tyler Morning Telegraph (Tyler, TX)
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Shamburger, Edward Everett

Services for Mr. Edward Everett Shamburger, 78, Tyler are 2 p.m. Friday at the Pine Springs Baptist Church with Revs. Mark Towns and Jerry Phelps officiating. Burial will follow in the Pine Springs Cemetery, services under the direction of Burks Walker Tippit Funeral Directors.

Mr. Shamburger died Nov. 18, 2008, in Tyler. He was born Oct. 24, 1930, in the Pine Springs Community to the late John Leo Shamburger and Minnie Bell Owen Shamburger. Everett has lived in the Pine Springs Community all his life. He attended Tyler schools and served in the Korean War. He is retired from Cotton Belt Railroad with 33 years of service; also he worked for AMECO as an electrician for a few years afterwards.

He is also preceded in death by a brother, John Lawrence Shamburger, and great-granddaughter, Raymee E. Oefinger.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Bonnie Jean Slaton Shamburger; daughters, Tammy Jill Shamburger and Jan Marie Yarbrough, both of Tyler; granddaughters, Angela R. Oefinger and Ralanda M. Desborough; great-grandson, Devin K. Hanssen; brother-in-law, LT Phelps of Tyler; nephews, Rev. Jerry Phelps of Tyler, and William Ellis of Greenwood, Miss.; nieces included Anita Moncrief of Tyler and Teresa Hunger of Jackson Hole, Wyo.

Pallbearers are Edwin Smith, Daren Stokes, Harold Callens, Devin Hanssen, Al Whitmer, LT Phelps, Jerry Shamburger and Jimmie Carter.

Honorary pallbearers are Carl Shamburger Jr. and Billy Hardy.

Family will receive friends at Burks Walker Tippit Funeral Home, Thursday 5 to 7 p.m.

Memorials may be made to Hospice of East Texas, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, 75701.