by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB
Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: FRIDAY, January 1, 1993 TAG: 9301040204 SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: HOLIDAY SOURCE: DATELINE: PEMBROKE, VA. LENGTH: Short
OBIT BURSEY, HENRY STUART
BURSEY, Henry Stuart, 77, of Pembroke, Va., died Thursday, December 31, 1992 in a Pearisburg hospital following a long illness. Born in Frederick County, Va., he was the son of the late Charles H. Sr. and Elsie G. Sovereign Bursey. He was married in 1939 to the late Una E. Dorton in Stephens City, Va. Mr. Bursey was employed by the Columbia Bread Company in Winchester, Va. for 25 years. He worked for Frederick County as dog warden and special police officer for ten years. He became police chief of Pembroke, Va. in 1969 and retired in 1982. Mr. Bursey was preceded in death by a daughter, Nancy Carolyn Bursey; two sisters, Mary Wright, and Hazel Kelso; and one brother, Walter Bursey. He is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law, Joanne and Jerry White, Stephens City, Va., Dana and Kenneth Acord, Elliston, Va., and Barbara and Mike Welch, Blacksburg, Va.; three sisters, Elsie May Hodson, Englewood, Colo., Gladys Adams, and Dorothy Bloom, both of Richmond, Va.; four brothers and sisters-in-law, Charles H. Bursey Jr. and Lillian Bursey, Waynesville, Ohio, Ralph and Patti Bursey, Melbourne Beach, Fla., Robert and Thelma Bursey, Stephens City, Va., William and Jenny Bursey, Winchester, Va.; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Kendall Funeral Home Chapel, Pembroke, with the Rev. Raymond S. Kelley and the Rev. Eddie Kendall officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Narrows.