Quincy Berka remembered: A full life celebrated

THE AMERICAN FLAG is draped over Quincy Berka’s coffin at his graveside service.
THE AMERICAN FLAG is draped over Quincy Berka’s coffin at his graveside service.

Quincy Berka was a man of many talents with lots of friends.

Sounds like a life worth living.

In addition to his considerable skills as a guitarist and as a mechanic, Berka held one other important distinction.

He was Burleson County’s last surviving World War II veteran.

Representing a generation that saved the world from endless oppression, Berka, like most of his generation, took little credit for …