Eleanor J. Burbach

Eleanor Burbach, age 103, of Hartington, Nebraska died on Sunday, August 12, 2018 at the Avera Majestic Bluffs Hospice House in Yankton, South Dakota. Mass of Christian Burial will be on Friday, August 17, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Hartington with the Rev. Owen Korte officiating. Burial will be at St. Michael’s Cemetery in Hartington. Visitation will be on Thursday, at church, from 5-8:00 p.m. with a Vigil service at 7:00 p.m. Visitation will continue on Friday one hour prior to services. Arrangements are under the direction of the Wintz Funeral Home in Hartington. Pallbearers will be Pat Steffen, Pat Burbach, Bob Burbach, Bryan Larsen, Mark Larsen, and Kelly Isom. Eleanor Josephine Burbach was born on January 4, 1915 in Fordyce, Nebraska to Herman and Christine (Schroeder) Steffen. She attended grade school in Constance and graduated from Holy Trinity High School in 1933 in Hartington. Eleanor attended Wayne Teachers College. She taught school for 43 years –teaching from 1934-1935 at Tip Top School, 10 years at Constance, Nebraska from 1936-1946, five years at Laurel from 1946-1950, and 28 years at Holy Trinity in Hartington. Eleanor married Peter Mathias Burbach on July 3, 1950 in Constance, Nebraska. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Yankton College in 1973. Eleanor retired from teaching in 1986. She volunteered at Holy Trinity Elementary from 1989-2009 and then moved to Majestic Bluffs in Yankton, SD in 2009. Eleanor was a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, and an original member of the Holy Trinity Perpetual Adoration until 2009, Christian Mothers, Legion of Mary, Catholic Daughters of America, the VFW Ladies Auxiliary, and Delta Kappa Camma. Eleanor also volunteered at the Hartington nursing home. Eleanor is survived by her daughter Bonita and husband Bill Larsen of Plano, TX; son Ron and wife Janet Burbach of Hartington; 3 grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; one sister Elizabeth Walton of Almeda, CA. Preceded in death by her parents, husband Peter in 2007, infant son Keith Burbach, daughter Rebecca Burbach; granddaughter Janell Burbach; five brothers Ike, Walter, Gregory, Robert, and Andrew Steffen; five sisters Rosalia Lammers, Mary Vanderheiden, Bernadette Bockholt, Ramona Meuret, and Betty Bockholt.