Jake Burdick Obituary
Jake is a 2024 Graduate of Elizabeth High School. Jake received awards and scholarships from EHS a few weeks ago to support him in his chosen career. Jake was an avid San Francisco 49'ers fan, with the Denver Broncos a close second. Jake loved football from his younger years through his high school career as #80 for Elizabeth High School. Jake played Little League baseball and was also in track and field at EHS. Jake started taking violin lessons at Shaw Middle School. Jake was first chair with the Elizabeth High School Orchestra. Jake could play anything with strings: guitar, banjo, and ukulele. During his senior year at EHS the black and white keys of a piano caught Jake's fancy. Jake had even been known to sit down and play his Grandma Coke's old organ at times. For part-time work, Jake was an Assistant Technician with Landmark Ford Lincoln, with his best friend and father, Jim, from March 2023 to the present. Jake will always be remembered for his big smile, always wanting the best for everyone he met. Jake was blessed to have inherited the good humor of his great-grandpa Larry Burdick. A big empty spot has been left by this 6' 3" beloved young man; especially in the hearts of his father, James (Jim) Burdick, his loving grandparents, Dan and "Coke" Burdick, and Jake's sister and brothers.
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Coke Burdick
December 11, 2025
Jake, it is almost your 20th birthday it seems like just yesterday, we celebrated your 18th birthday. I want to wish you a Happy Birthday in heaven. I know you are there watching over me and your dad. I fell your presence every day as I go through my own life. I feel you always with me.
It is just not the same without you here, I wish you could have lived a life of joy and happiness, but I do believe that you are safe in the hands of Jesus and living among the stars. Love you so much always have ever since the first day I meet you sitting behind a box of motor oil waiting for someone to come and take care of you. I have tried to be that person I pray that in our short time together I was able to be that special person in your life. Grandma.
Coke Burdick
June 14, 2025
Jake it is June 14, 2025, waiting for your dad to call me. I share this with you, by now you have met your Aunt Carol, we sent her your way on May 30th.
I still talk to you every day, and I play our song every morning, it is not the best but I manage to make my fingers on my left hand work. But you know all of that as I know you are with me at all times.
Trying to find a new puppy and when I do this new little girl will be names JJ, I know you did not like me calling you JJ but it just seemed to fit for a new puppy. Since I am getting a girl Jake would just not work.
Grandpa and I miss you every day, but I know you are being taken care of and will be waiting for us when our time comes.
Love you lots and you are always in my thoughts. Grandma
Coke Burdick
May 13, 2025
Jake, it is almost a year since we lost you. I am in the processes of getting my rose garden cleaned up for the summer season. It is not the same you are not here to assist me. Yesterday we had your gravesite cleaned up and a higher wall put around the site. We keep having to remind people not to put fresh flowers on the site, the deer love them and then the deer mess up the rocks. Kind of like your pumpkin patch.
I have been trying to find ways to keep your life and memory of you a live, it has become a major task. I don't understand why, BYFA is gone and Elizabeth High does not seem to want to work with us. I did find out that a brick in your honor will be set this spring - that helps. From what I am understanding your #80 jersey is still in the locker room.
I am thinking of giving funds to Youth Diabetic Foundation. Will see where this goes.
At church this coming Sunday, grandpa and I will be serving "Jake Food", carrot sticks, Gold Fish, gummy fruit snacks, cheese sticks and apples.
I talk to you every day via you pictures and my organ, which I can now play an everyday finger exercise for me, I play "A Place in the Choir". I can still remember you walking up to the organ and playing that crazy song.
Oh the memories of Jake I have, they fill me with love and joy. Still thinking of writing that book. Till I see you again, this website has been good for me, I know that you are looking down on us and know that we love and miss you so much.
Gramma
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Carolyn
November 12, 2024
Hello Mr. Burdick and Mrs. Burdick, I read about Jake's life and his battle with T1D in the newspaper today. My heart goes out to you both. Jake was a blessed boy and your love for him resounds. He will be missed. With Sympathy, C.S.
Colleen "Coke" Burdick
August 24, 2024
My most recent memory is your picture of playing the violin, I believe it is the picture I used for your graduation notice. It is sitting here on my computer desk as I try and cut out an Advent Village that I am trying to make for Christmas. I have no clue who I am going to give it to, you would have loved it but I am going to make it anyway in your memory. Behind it is a poem that you used to keep by your bed when you lived here with grandpa and me: "Dare to Dream": Choose a wish, find a dream,
Pick a wishing star:
Let your hopes and spirits soar
High and free and far.
Reach for the unreachable,
Stretch to touch the sky,
Know no dream you treasure
Is too far away or high.
Believe in the impossible,
Then work and try and do -
For only those who dare to dream
Can make a dream come true!
As I read these words, I can only pray that in your short life with us here on earth your dreams did come true. I know that you wanted to play football, there was nothing else than football, good grades and your dad. You now have reached the unreachable and you are dancing among the stars with God now. A place that is so far away and high and hold all the treasures you had dreamed about. Until we meet again, and I can enjoy your heavenly home with you. Love you always grandma.
Colleen "Coke" Burdick
July 7, 2024
I was sitting on the deck last night, eating ice cream, and a breeze came up, a gentle breeze and I looked over and noticed the rose garden you built for me and I felt your presence in that gentle breeze and the beautiful roses that now grow there. You will always be with me. Gramma
Colleen "Coke" Burdick
July 6, 2024
A statement was written by someone, that I would like to quote,
"Let us not morn the absence of Jake's physical form, but rather celebrate the essence of his spirit that lingers in the spaces between moments. For Jake is not truly gone but merely transformed, his energy intertwined with the fabric of the universe itself, forever dancing among the stars".
Jake I see you each morning in the rising of the sun and the morning star and each evening in the setting of the sun and the evening star. Gramma
Coke Burdick
June 21, 2024
Grandma Coke's first memory of Jake, was when he was around 2 and was sitting on the floor behind oil can boxes with only a diaper on, no shirt, socks, shoes or pants, just a diaper. Grandpa and took him home and from that moment on he stole my heart.
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