Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-11-20
nEGAN CAREER Is uiMuiil> '
FORTY WARS AGO NIIh
PEORIA IRAN~t RlPt
PREACHER AND LECTURER
Later Part of Ili~ Life spent IN 'ali-
l.lnia Where Hc NaS Pastor
ot The Temple Baptist
Church

O.. 's.,eiai,4 Press
PASADENA. Calf, Nov I'D
Br Robert j Burdotte preacher ave
thor. humorist. died 90 his home here
zoo two this afternoon Tie had h'.'
Id the most of Two years The F.l
week Dc has been unconscious
Robert J. Burdeltc began ,uiiINa'.
ing good humor ob.gure'y boo Peoria.
m. forty years ago when Doe spent
mart of his days at desk ON tho
Peoria Transcript "trying to think .
as he himself once related. of pl.1-
SAINT things 90 tell the folks when !
went home at night" ll'- audience
of folks then was Carrie Garrett.
the Peoria girl he hal married
short time before. while She iaN ur
posplIv 0n her death bed. but Nt"
lived. and. though au invalid for
life. became immor'alilcd b' h'
husband a4 "Hor Little Serene llaH
riness' lt was She who encouraged
him 10 SOW his humor iu nid'r
field. A. her bedside burd'ito u'.
came prolific with fuu-maNng 'o'-
trihution. f0 the Enrlin-ton, IHt
UavkDye. and through these ho h".
came famous the country over g#
The Burlington rlaWkoyo Man '
The little invalid wife oncouws'l ]
him. too. Co Jry the lecture field
She kept me- 90 o. said Rurde'ir
and in do, time we had % lecture
ON our hands Tho Rise ana FAN o.
tho Mouetache' Hurdctte insisted
on TRYING 10 lecture firet bon keoNIt
Tor Eeokuk hHto1 Burlington
and if DO succeeded there ho "os'I
know that g. was good Even Eeo
kuk applaude1 The Who'll, United
States later did the same llc bccawr
sort af ntiucrar' preacher
A. 60. ten wears ago. Mr.. iluric'''
was called 90 th, permanent pastor
ate of the Temple Baptist church %
Los Angeles. California
Although Burdeue's original homo
was m Greensboro Pa. where ha
was born iu lNi4--the later part q.
bis lic was spent in california.
tits nome was sunny Crest, pasld'-
pa california ilis first wife had
diod after fifteen years of cHcpura-
meut to him. during which She hud
travelled au over the country W'H
him. 900 lNg" ho married Mrs Clara
% Baker of Pasadena
: fugitive instance of NUrdDft.
rolli,kiug humor was % letter hou"
to Dis Iolk in Los Angeles durina
hie first trip to Europe he dated
tho letter from some distance uuf .u
tho damp" and said ,n part
"Tho scenery alone This route ...
though somewhat mon0tOUuu. '.
spI,u1idIt irrieut"d Elt i, sooiHs
too early for tUr growing crops \ofH.
iue da come up yet, except un -h.H-
board and that uas gor" of,rHo1r'.
Tho route is not nearly popu'a
as th. Santa Fc trail over inn de-
err Me have just Two kinds oI day.
the dl.s nc SEQ ship ana tHn da
Ur don't
Tho ,etran hrmor.i found .uU u
everything While Ho was forced u
abandon 30 iu the pulpit largely ..-
Dau.. or tHe reputation Ho bad mH
for ur. ulk.u-. H. agreed with ir.
rs Ward Ho"cIer fHa' 0kp iu fH.
pulpit uas u0i a' alI ouf oI place
If aa.. a- N.Drhlr said When tu"
Hr. GcHtIue f.a devil shoot HIm ..tH
aurliul
Hudstfc died .irH t1. conviction
fNlf there wa. uo' only just %. mu..
fnu 300 th' world 'nIay as ever. H..
. great deal more because. a. ..
a.1 there aro more people in u