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Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives
b.14 Jun 1909 Hunt City Township, Jasper, Illinois, United States
d.14 Apr 1995
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Name Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives
Gender Male
Birth[1][3] 14 Jun 1909 Hunt City Township, Jasper, Illinois, United States
Military[3] Served as a Corporal in the US Army in World War II.
Death[2] 14 Apr 1995
Burial[3] Mound Cemetery, Jasper, Illinois, United States

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American musician, actor, and author with a career that spanned more than six decades.

Ives was born in Hunt City, an unincorporated town in Jasper County, Illinois, near Newton, to Levi "Frank" Ives (1880–1947) and Cordelia "Dellie" (née White; 1882–1954). He had six siblings: Audry, Artie, Clarence, Argola, Lillburn, and Norma. His father was first a farmer and then a contractor for the county and others.

On December 6, 1945, Ives, then 36, married 29-year-old script writer Helen Peck Ehrlich. Their son Alexander was born in 1949.

Ives, a longtime smoker of pipes and cigars, was diagnosed with oral cancer in the summer of 1994. After several unsuccessful operations, he decided against further surgery. He fell into a coma and died from the disease on April 14, 1995, at his home in Anacortes, Washington, just two months before his 86th birthday. He was buried at Mound Cemetery in Hunt City Township, Jasper County, Illinois.

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  1. ↑ ISBN 9781787204898, in "Wayfairing Stranger" by Burl Ives
    1948.

    Available in Preview form from Repository:Google Books. Full text also available via Repository:Open Library; https://archive.org/details/wayfaringstrange00ives/ .

    Birth location - pg. 1

  2. ↑ Singer, Actor Burl Ives Dies, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Washington Post, The. (Washington, D.C.)
    15 Apr 1995.

    Article by Bart Barnes; article archived via Internet Archive.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Photo of burial pad, Burl I Ives, in Find A Grave
    10 Aug 2001.

    Burl Ives (1909-1995)

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