Albemarle County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burns, Jaquelin Caskie March 21, 2006
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Daily Progress, March 23 to March 27, 2006
Jaquelin Caskie Burns, 86, of Charlottesville, passed away peacefully Tuesday, 
March 21, 2006, at Martha Jefferson Hospital, in the company of her husband and 
her son James, after a long illness.



She was born March 16, 1920 in Albemarle County at the Minor family home, "Gale 
Hill", near Proffit, the third of six children born to Margaret Minor Caskie 
and Jaquelin Ambler Caskie.



Following the death of her father and the burning of the home in 1930, the 
family moved to Charlottesville. Jaquelin was a graduate of Venable School and 
Lane High School, and she attended Mary Washington College and the Tarleton 
Business School.



For 11 years prior to her marriage she was a partner with Adelaide Hopkins 
operating the Shorthand Club, a school specializing in typing and shorthand 
instruction. She married James R. Burns in 1950, and subsequently gave birth to 
three sons. She devoted herself fully to the home and family until the youngest 
child was grown, after which she took employment as church secretary at the 
Oakton, Virginia, Church of the Brethren for eight years until her retirement 
in 1984. After spending most of their married years in Northern Virginia, she 
and her husband returned to Charlottesville in 1988.



Jaquelin impressed those who knew her with her devotion and loyalty to friends 
and family, and her tireless efforts as a caregiver, going well beyond her role 
as a loving wife and mother. At the age of 10, following her father's death, 
she became a "little mother", assisting her own mother by taking on major 
responsibilities in the raising of her younger siblings.



During World War II she moved in with an epileptic friend to care for her while 
the friend's husband was in military service. In subsequent years, she kept a 
brother's children while he obtained an education, and she shared with her 
sister, Margaret, in the care of their mother through the disabilities of the 
mother's final years. She had a ready sense of humor, and she expanded her 
interests frequently in order to share favorite pastimes in companionship with 
her family and close friends.



Jaquelin was a devout Christian, raised and confirmed in the Charlottesville 
(now First) Presbyterian Church. After her marriage, she transferred membership 
to the Vienna (Virginia) Presbyterian Church, where she taught Sunday school 
for a number of years and where she remained a member until her death.



Jaquelin was preceded in death by her parents and by four brothers, John, 
Alexander, Robert, and Dabney, as well as by a number of close and special 
friends.



Survivors who cherish her memory include her husband, Jim, of Charlottesville; 
her sons, James "Jasper" and Philip, both also of Charlottesville, her son, 
David, of Wardensville, West Virginia, together with his wife, Jill, their 
sons, Paul and Toby, and Jill's daughter, Amy; Jaquelin's sister, Margaret, and 
her husband Rudolf Freund of Montgomery, Texas; a cousin who has remained 
especially close, Martha Dabney Jones of Charlottesville; and a number of 
nieces, nephews, cousins, sisters-inlaw, and close friends.



A graveside service will be held 11 a.m. Monday March 27, 2006, at Maplewood 
Cemetery with the Rev. Timothy Read from First Presbyterian Church officiating.



In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that a memorial gift may be made to the 
donor's favorite charity.



Arrangements with Hill and Wood Funeral Home are incomplete.

  

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