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Palm Beach Daily News, Sunday, February 17, 1991 All OBITUARIES Palm Way, Palm Beach, 33480. W. Peter Burns W. Peter Burns, 41, a partner with the Miami-based law firm of Steel Hector Davis, died in his Coconut Grove home Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1991, from complications arising from AIDS.

Burns headed the trust and probate group for Steel Hector Davis, one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the state. Born in Palm Beach on Nov. 16, 1949, Burns attended Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and received his bachelor and law degrees from Columbia University in New York, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Burns joined the West Palm Beach office of Steel Hector Davis in 1980 when the firm merged with Palm Beach-based Burns Middleton Farrell Faust, of which his father, C. Robert Burns, was a founding partner.

Burns joined Steel Hector's Miami office in 1981, and in 1987 succeeded his father as the head of the firm's probate group. Burns is survived by his mother, Bee, of Palm Beach; a brother, Sam, of Hendersonville, N.C.; and a sister, Martha Gay Morton of West Palm Beach. He also leaves two nieces and a nephew. A memorial mass will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 464 N.E.

16 St. Visitation for family and friends will follow at Burns' home. Arrangements are being handled by Lithgow Philbrick Funeral Chapel of Coral Gables. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be sent to the W. Peter Burns Memorial Fund for hospice care for those suffering with AIDS, at the Dade Community Foundation, 4770 Southeast Financial Center, Miami, 33131-2347.

Gerda L. Read Gerda Laura Read, the mother of Palm Beach muralist and artist Philip Standish Read, died Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1991, at her home in Carpinteria, Calif. She was 93 years old. She succumbed to complications following a stroke.

Mrs. Read was a frequent visitor to the Palm Beaches. Prior to her marriage to Myles Weir Read, a direct descendant of Miles Standish, she had established a career as an art illustrator in New York City. Mrs. Read is survived by her son, Philip Read, and two daughters, Priscilla Peak of Carpinteria, and Georgiana Batten, of Wayland, Mass.

In lieu of flowers, friends are requested to send contributions to Hospice, 5300 East West Palm Beach, 33407, or the American Heart Association, 1301 S. Olive West Palm Beach, 33407. Amy Bateman Amy Cunningham Bateman of Palm Beach died Friday, Feb. 15, 1991. Mrs.

Bateman was raised in Bar Harbor, Maine, and graduated from Lesley College in Cambridge, Mass. Mrs. Bateman lived in Phoen-ixville, with her husband William Batemen before moving to Palm Beach in 1956. Mrs. Bateman was a member of many civic and social organizations including the Daughters of the American Revolution, the English Speaking Union, Chapter AZ P.E.O.

Sisterhood, the Everglades Club, the Sailfish Club, the Society of the Four Arts, the Beach Club and the Palm Beach National Golf and Country Club. Mrs. Bateman is survived by two daughters, Deborah deVeer Offutt of Atlanta and Cynthia Bateman-May of Bozeman, two sons, F. Frederick Bateman of Tampa and William Bateman Jr. of Nuremberg, Germany; nine grandchildren; one sister, Beulah Smith of Braden-ton; and one brother, Roger Cunningham of Bar Harbor, Maine.

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