Laura Matilda (Gorath) Bourlan

Class of 1958

1958 Maroon SpotlightLaura Gorath
Laura Gorath

Red Hots 55-58; All School Revue 56-57; Assemblies 55-56, 57-58.

1958 Graduation Edition
Perry Daily Journal

Laura Matilda Gorath has attended Pioneer, Christ Lutheran, and Perry public schools. She is the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gorath, route 3, Perry. Her plans for the future are indefinite. Collecting salt and pepper shakers is her hobby. She has appeared in class assemblies, the all-school review, home economics style show and the annual Christmas vespers program.

Laura Matilda (Gorath) Bourlan

November 24, 1940 – July 9, 2010

Laura M. Bourlon, 69, of Van Buren, Arkansas died on Friday, July 9th in a local hospital.

She was a previous employee of Kay Chair Manufacturing, the Van Buren Public School System, and a member of First Baptist Church of Van Buren.

Preceding her in death were her parents, Fred and Junna Anderson Gorath and by a son Joey Bourlon.

Survivors include: her husband, Billy of the home; two daughters, Jennifer Lamproe of Uniontown, AR and Debbie Drew of Harrah, OK; three sons, Pepper Bourlon of Rudy, AR, Toby Bourlon of Uniontown and Terry Bourlon of Van Buren, AR; one sister Ester Arnold of Watonga, OK; on brother, Ernest Gorath of Perry, OK; eighteen grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren.

Funeral service was held Monday, July 12, at 10:00 am at Ocker Memorial Chapel in Van Buren with Rev. Scott Maze officiating. Burial was at Gracelawn Cemetery in Van Buren.