Charles L. Burrall Jr.

Remarks for Boy’s Funeral

Families are curious things. They come in all shapes and sizes. When discussing extended families, size matters, as two families are joined together, generation after generation, over and over again and family trees widen (and sometimes shrink) with the passage of time. Today, my family and I represent the McHenry family which is on the other side of the Marshall family, which is on the other side of the Mills family, which is on the other side of the...

My Old Man’s a Consulting Actuary… what do you think about that?
Pretty unique, huh?

Charlie Burrall was born Charles Lorenzo Burrall, Jr in Squirrel, Idaho, the youngest in the family with two older sisters. His father and mother operated the general store in Squirrel. Still a young child, his mother died from the influenza of 1918. His father later moved to operate the larger general store in Ashton and remarried. Dad was raised by “Aunt Nell”, a taskmaster and strict...