Sussex-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burgess, Mary E. Trueheart, 1955 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MARY ELIZABETH TRUEHEART BURGESS WAKEFIELD, Nov. 3 - Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Trueheart Burgess, 70, died Thursday at her home here. A native of Surry County, she was a member of the Arlington, Va., Community Methodist Church. Surviving are her husband, Emmett J. Burgess; two daughters, Mrs. Pearl B. Laine, of Wakefield, and Mrs. Katherine B. Scarborough, of Arlington; four sons, J. Paul Burgess, of Falls Church; Roy E. Burgess, of Richmond, and Emmett T. and William R. Burgess, of Arlington; one brother, H.E. Trueheart, of Petersburg; one sister, Mrs. H.O. Burgess, of Dendron, and 11 grandchildren. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Purviance Funeral Home, with burial in Wakefield Cemetery. Mary Elizabeth (TRUEHEART; Mrs. Emmett J.) BURGESS, b. 8 Jan 1876, Surry Co., d. 3 Nov 1955, at home, Wakefield, interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 6 Nov 1955, "Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Nov. 4, 1955, p. 24 *Wakefield list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/b622m4ob.txt