{"id":21970,"date":"2019-03-01T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=21970"},"modified":"2019-03-01T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:20:24","slug":"alvin-al-willard-burgess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/?p=21970","title":{"rendered":"Alvin “Al” Willard Burgess"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alvin \u201cAl\u201d Willard Burgess, 80, passed away on February 25,\n2019, at Haven Hospice in Gainesville, Fla. Al was born June 13,\n1938, in York, S.C., to Jesse Willard Burgess and Gaynelle Bishop Burgess.
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\nAl was a graduate of the University of Florida and honorably served our country\nin the United States Army Reserve for 11 years. He was of the Methodist\nfaith and was a member of Windsor Providence United Methodist Church. Al worked\nas a Chemical Technologist for 30 years, primarily with PCR (Hanson),\nand he was a member of the Gainesville Power Squadron and the Coast Guard\nAuxiliary.
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\nAl was preceded in death by his parents Jesse Willard Burgess and Gaynelle\nBishop Burgess, his daughter Linda Gail Burgess Dailey and his two brothers,\nNorman and Frank Burgess.
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\nHe is survived by his wife of 35 years, Early Jane Wages\nWalkinshaw Burgess, his son Thomas Burgess, and three stepsons, Howard\n(Karen), Steven (Jenai), and Douglas Walkinshaw, his sister, Patsy\nPaladino (Richard), ten grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, as well\nas a host of nieces, nephews and cousins.
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\nFuneral Services will be held on Saturday, March 2, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. at First\nUnited Methodist Church of Perry with Pastor Mark Ward officiating.\nInterment services will follow immediately afterwards in Woodlawn Cemetery. The\nfamily will receive friends from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 2,\n2019, at First United Methodist Church of Perry. All arrangements are under the\ndirection of Burns Funeral Home of Perry.
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\nFriends may sign the online guest book at www.joepburnsfuneralhomes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alvin \u201cAl\u201d Willard Burgess, 80, passed away on February 25, 2019, at Haven Hospice in Gainesville, Fla. Al was born June 13, 1938, in York, S.C., to Jesse Willard Burgess and Gaynelle Bishop Burgess. Al was a graduate of the University of Florida and honorably served our country in the United States Army Reserve for 11 years. He was of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21971,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970\/revisions\/21971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perrynewspapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}