Feb 26, 1933
Dec 14, 2020
Harold John Burre was born in Leavenworth, Kansas on February 26, 1933 and passed in San Angelo, Texas on December 14, 2020 due to complications from Covid-19 (stricken with silent hypoxia while tending to his outdoor plants). His parents were John and Edna (Krekeler) Burre of Leavenworth, KS with a family fruit-growing operation, particularly apples and peaches.
He was the first member of the family to be college-educated with him being commissioned into the United States Air Force upon graduation from Kansas State University in 1955. He completed his pilot training in 1956 at Webb AFB, Big Spring, Texas.
While finishing college, Harold married his high school sweetheart Lila Lake (also of Leavenworth) a week after first visiting San Angelo for the first time in 1954 while on an AFROTC excursion to Goodfellow AFB when it was still a flying training base. Harold retired as a Major in 1975 after 20 years of service in the Air Force with Goodfellow bei