
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 28, 1995                   TAG: 9502280096
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: MATT CHITTUM
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

EXTENSION-TECH OFFICIAL DIES AT 63

William C. Burleson, information coordinator for the Virginia Cooperative Extension and Virginia Tech since the late 1970s, died Sunday after a long illness. He was 63.

Burleson, a native of Louisville, Ky., graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in journalism and served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.

He came to Virginia Tech in 1965 after working as a business editor for both the Lynchburg News and the Roanoke World-News.

He started at Virginia Tech as news bureau director. In 1978, he became a writer and editor for the Cooperative Extension's communications staff.

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