THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, December 7, 1994 TAG: 9412070373
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: CLARKSVILLE, TENN. LENGTH: Short : 37 lines
Dr. Collinson Pierrepont Edwards Burgwyn, 69, of Clarksville, died Monday, Dec. 5, 1994.
He was a native of Petersburg and a son of the late George Pollock and Emily Bartlett Roper II. Dr. Burgwyn was a 1943 Petersburg High School graduate, attended William and Mary College and was an outstanding alumni, a 1948 Medical College of Virginia graduate, a member of the Jamestown Society, Mayflower Society, Sons of the American Revolution, and a life member of the VMI Foundation. During the Korean War, he was a Captain in the U.S. Navy and served as a flight surgeon on the USS Leyte. Dr. Burgwyn practiced GYN medicine in Petersburg from 1959 to 1965, at Riverside Hospital, Newport News, from 1965 to 1978, and Blanchfield Army Community Hospital in Fort Campbell, Ky., from 1978 until 1994.
Surviving are a daughter, Nancy Page Burgwyn of Hampton; two sons, Bartlett Roper Burgwyn II of Chesterfield County and Collinson Pierrepont Edwards Burgwyn Jr. of Williamsburg; two grandsons, Bartlett Roper Burgwyn III of Chesterfield and Collinson Pierrepont Edwards Burgwyn III of Williamsburg; and two brothers, Nathaniel T.R. Burgwyn of Richmond and Bartlett Roper Burgwyn of Jackson, N.C.
Funeral services will be held Friday at 1 p.m. in the Episcopal Church of the Savior, Jackson, N.C., with interment to follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home, Petersburg. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Henry King Burgwyn Scholarship Fund at VMI, Lexington, Va. 24450.
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