Frances E. Burcham (Fritzie), age 92, died peacefully and with family on Good Friday, April 19, 2019. She was born July 18, 1926 in Rosewood, Ohio, the daughter of Cora and Ward Van Horn. Fritzie graduated from Harrison Adams High School in 1944 and was employed at Cromwell Collins Publishing Company, Wren’s Department Store and Bauer Brothers in Springfield, Ohio. On November 16, 1951 she married Warren K. Burcham and together they owned and operated the Warren K. Burcham Funeral Home in Fairborn, Ohio until his death on April 15, 1985. In 1987 she moved to Sarasota, Florida to care for her ailing mother and lived there until November 2018, when she moved to Ithaca, New York to be near her niece, Lisa Strayer and great nephew, Christopher Strayer. She was a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Fairborn until moving to Sarasota, where she was a member of Vamo United Methodist Church and subsequently the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. She gave of her time, talent and energy to these church communities. She is survived by numerous nieces and nephews whom she dearly loved. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, three brothers (Richard, Donald and John Van Horn) and one sister (Mary Ruth Strayer). She was a life member of The American Legion Auxiliary Gignam-Whitman Post Unit #526 Fairborn, Ohio and Eastern Star in Springfield, Ohio.
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