Pastor Burt R Poole

Burt R. Poole was born in 1923 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He honorably served his country in the United States Navy during World War II. While in the Navy, Burt met the love of his life, Dorothy Hunn from Indiana, who was also serving in the Navy as a Wave. They soon married.

Burt graduated from Rockmont College in Colorado and attended seminary in Pennsylvania. He spent a year doing missionary work in Ireland that fostered a lifelong love for Ireland and its people. He served as a Baptist pastor in churches in Colorado, Delaware and California.

Burt is survived by his beloved wife of 65 years, Dorothy E. Poole; children David Poole and his wife April, Sharon Litts and her husband Robert, Pamela Laing and her husband Rolly and Kathleen Viaes; brother, Amber Poole and his wife Doris; ten grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.

Burt was also a poet. He was first published as a young boy. Below is one of his poems:

~ CONSOLATION ~

God sees the love in each falling

tear as we say our last goodbyes.

To the one we love so dearly,

soon to leave this world of sighs.

God feels our pain of sorrow as

we try to understand,

Why one we love is taken to

another distant land.

There’s a blessed consolation

as we pray there by the bed,

That the one we love may leave us,

but disease can’t keep him dead.

For the God of life has promised

in the pages of His word,

“To be absent from the body,

makes us present with the Lord,”

And with Him we’ll live forever,

without sorrow, guilt or pain,

Jesus paid the price to save us,

His the loss and ours the gain.

What a blessed consolation that

someday we’ll meet again,

And we’ll share our joys forever,

in our Father’s vast domain.

- Pastor Burt R. Poole