UPSON COUNTY, GA -Obits Melvin H. Burden Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorothy Fletcher Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Melvin H. Burden Thomaston…Funeral Services for Melvin Horace Burden, age 63, of Route 2,( McEacher) (could not see the end of the word) Subdivision, were held today at 2 p.m. from the Twin Oaks Baptist Church, with the Rev. Sam Davis and the Rev. Harry P. Wootan officiating. Interment was in South View Cemetery with Coggins Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mr. Burden died Saturday night, 1977 at the Upson County Hospital. He was a native of Coffee County, but had lived in Upson County for 32 years. He was employed in the Sign Dept. of the Sate Highway Dept., Thomaston Division and was a member of the Twin Oaks Baptist church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Clyde Burden, Thomaston, two Daughters: Mrs. Jacqueline Storey, Thomaston and Mrs. Martha Ann Cawthon, Forest Park, a son, James Melvin Burden, Meansville, two sisters: Mrs. Walter Yonce, Stockbridge, and Mrs. Alma Key, Miami, Fla. Four grandchildren also survive.