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.
