Jack Burton Has Passed Away, Obituary Press And Death Cause

Jack Burton Obituary, Death – Norfolk’s bus drivers The Rev. Jack Burton, a Methodist clergyman and author, passed away at the age of 83. The father of three, who held the office of Sheriff of Norwich from 1988 to 1989, passed away on Tuesday, August 1 at his house in the heart of the city after a protracted battle with Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Burton was the oldest of nine half-brothers and sisters when he was born in 1939 on Marion Road in Thorpe Hamlet.

He was a student at the City of Norwich School when American preacher Billy Graham inspired him to join the church as a youngster. He later went on to study theology at Handsworth College in Birmingham. At that point, he had previously seen Molly from the pulpit while giving a sermon at St. Faith’s Methodist Chapel, where they later were hitched in 1961.

When he was assigned to Glasgow’s difficult Govan neighborhood in 1963, he delighted in the demanding beginning to his full-time ministry. He relocated to Littleport, a small Fenland town close to Ely, two years later. The Golden Star tavern was saved from demolition during the extension of Duke Street by the organization, making up for an earlier incident in which he accidentally struck the tavern with his bus as he turned right out of Colegate.

Mr. Burton was a gifted writer who published a number of works, the most prominent of which was the prize-winning “Transport of Delight” (1976), which was a diary of a year in his life as a worker-priest. He maneuvered a double-decker through the Erpingham Gate and into The Cathedral Close to conduct the launch. The Wonder of Buses and Trams was the title of one collection, and other works included poetry, a young-adult novel, and an unwritten history of Norwich Over the Water.