Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burroughs, Benjamin Baker August 9, 1967
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Virginian-Pilot August 10, 1967
VIRGINIA BEACH - Benjamin Baker Burroughs, 77, of 114 61st St., retired 
insurance official and conservationist, died Wednesday in a Norfolk hospital.
Burroughs was for many years chairman of the Seashore State Park Committee of 
the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce. In 1966, he was honored with a monument at the 
park entrance for his untiring efforts to preserve the park in its natural 
state.
After the park closed in 1955 to avoid court-ordered integration, he was 
credited with getting it re-opened to the public.
He retired as a partner of the insurance firm of Burroughs & Watson, Inc. He was 
a member of First Presbyterian Church and Virginia Club.
A lifelong resident of the Norfolk and Virginia Beach area, he was the husband 
of Mrs. Mary Champe Taylor Burroughs and a son of John J. and Mrs. May Baker 
Burroughs.
Besides his widow, surviving are four nieces.
A funeral service will be held today at 11:30 a.m. in H. D. Oliver Funeral 
Apartments. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. The family has requested that 
flowers be omitted.


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