Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Corprew, Burruss November 22, 1947
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Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, Mon., Nov. 24, 1947
 Corprew Dies At Beach Home

Funeral services for Burruss Corprew, 79, formerly engaged in the real estate 
business in this section, who died at his residence, Avenue C, Virginia Beach, 
Saturday at 6:45 p.m., were to be conducted at the residence this afternoon at 2 
o’clock.
The Rev. Robert Davis, pastor at the church, in which Mr. Corprew served as an 
elder, was to officiate. Interment will be in Elmwood. Mr. Corprew died of a 
heart attack and his death was a shock to his family and friends as he had not 
complained of feeling badly.
A native of Norfolk he was born in the old Burruss home on West Freemason Street 
and was the son of the late John Bartee Corprew and Mrs. Elizabeth Augusta 
Burruss Corprew. His wife, the former Sue L. Cummings of Wilmington, N.C., died 
12 years ago.
He attended Gatewood School and in his early days was employed by Burruss Son 
and Company and later by the Texas Oil Company for a brief period.
Surviving him are two daughters, Mrs. E.M. Hardy and Mrs. W.R. Ashburn; three 
grandchildren, William R. Ashburn, Jr., Mrs. Joseph Cotton, Jr., and Miss 
Virginia Ashburn, all of Virginia Beach and a brother, Edwin E. Corprew, of 
Richmond.

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