LOWNDES COUNTY, GA - OBITS - Burgsteiner, James Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Parkinson Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/lowndes.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm James Burgsteiner, Retired Inspector, For Railroad, Dies The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla. Nov. 5, 1955. James Davis Burgsteiner, 84, retired yard inspector for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, died in a local convalescent home yesterday after a long illness. Mr. Burgsteiner, who made his home at 159 Ocean Blvd., Atlantic Beach, was born in Lowndes County, GA., and lived at Savannah for many years before moving here some 15 years ago. He was a member of the Methodist Church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Alaric L. Taylor of Gainesville, Mrs. Ben Leon Tullis of Atlantic Beach and Mrs. Ernest M. Parker of Jacksonville; two sisters, Mrs. D. L. Walker of Perrine and Mrs. Perry G., Moore of Valdosta, Ga.; a brother, Ben L. Burgsteiner of Valdosta, and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. today in the Hardage and Sons Funeral Chapel, 517 Park St., with the Rev. Carroll Kendrick, minister of the Neptune Chapel, officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery. The family asks that flowers not be sent.