During sixty-three years of marriage, Dr. Ken and Clarita Burden raised four children, welcomed six grandchildren, and followed the leading of the Lord in their vocations and avocations. They donated time and money to missions through the Seventh-day Adventist Church. When they weren’t working, tending to medical patients or teaching piano students, the couple drove their RV across the United States, boarded a cruise ship to Europe, Africa, or South America, or hopped on an airplane to fly overseas. During their travels, they visited every county in the country and more than one hundred nations in the world.

Dr. Kenneth H. Burden graduated from Union College in 1948 and from Loma Linda University in 1952. He worked for the U.S. Public Health Service before accepting a mission assignment in Puerto Rico, where the family lived for twelve years. After six years in the Napa Valley of California, he and Clarita moved north to Chehalis, Washington, where he became a partner in Steck Medical Group.  

“Julie Zander has an engaging personality and great skills in obtaining needed information and organizing work in an interesting fashion as illustrated in the well-done autobiography she did for me. I would highly recommend her for any such endeavor.”

–Dr. Kenneth Burden, February 2019