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Burless Lawrence George d. 20 August 1982

Springfield Leader and Press
Springfield, Missouri
22 August 1982 (Sunday)
Page 24

Burless George

HANCOCK- Services for Burless Lawrence George, 62, Hancock, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Birmingham-Martin Chapel in Dixon with the Rev. Charles L. Pitts officiating. Burial will be in Dixon Cemetery.

Mr. George died at 11:43 p.m. Friday in Harry S. Truman Veterans Administration Hospital, Columbia, after a long illness.

After 12 years as a lineman for the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Fort Leonard Wood, he retired in 1960. A world War II Army veteran, he was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 4956 in Crocker and a member of Dixon Church of Christ.

Survivors include his wife, Ruth; two sons, Gary, Eldon, and Maurice, Crocker; a daughter, Virginia Berry, Fort Leonard Wood; a brother, Elzie, Waynesville; four sisters, Ilene Hanson and Genevieve Crawford, both of Stockton, Calif., Mrs. Prentiss Urlacher, Antioch, Calif., and Mrs. Evelyn Holt, Waynesville; and two grandchildren.


The family will be at the funeral home from 5 to 9 p.m. Monday and from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Tuesday.