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- LINDALE- Services for James Wilborn Burgin, 69, Tyler, are pending with Caudle-Rutledge Funeral Home.
Mr. Burgin died Friday in a local hospital after a lengthy illness.
He was born April 16, 1921, in Upshur County and was a longtime resident of the Big Sandy-Hawkins area before moving to Tyler 35 years ago. He was a verteran of WWII, serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps and received several medals furing campaigns in the Pacific Theater. He was a member of the Paran Primitive Baptist Church, Hawking.
He is survived by his wife, Marcy Burgin, Tyler; one son, Jimmy Wayne Burgin, Waco; two daughters, Jane Norris, Carroll, and Linda Stricklin, Plano; his mother, Opan Burgin, Hawkins; one brother, W.M. (Bill) Burgin, Houston; three sisters, Flora Stutts, Jacksonville, Patsy Mitchell and Helen Pittman, both of Hawkins; and 8 grandchildren and one step great-grandchild.
Family will receive friends from 6:30-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph Saturday, July 21, 1990
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