Milton Roy Burger

Family/Spouse: Florence C. Briggs. Florence was born on 22 May 1901 in Hornell, Steuben County, New York; died on 02 Apr 1976 in Dansville, Livingston County, New York; was buried in Rogersville Forest Lawn Cemetery, Dansville, Steuben County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A funeral service was conducted yesterday for Robert M. Burger, 36, of 6 Liberty St., who was killed instantly in an auto crash near Warsaw early Sunday (Nov. 13, 1960) morning.

Burger, a World War II Navy veteran, was a passenger in a car driven by Warren Taylor, 31, of Gainesville which went out of control, rammed a tree and rolled over in the Wyoming County Hamlet of Eagle, about 2 a.m.

Taylor an another passenger, James Hoy, 32, of Warsaw are in Warsaw hospital where Hoy's condition is listed as "critical." He suffered a fracture skull and multiple lacerations in the smashup.

Taylor is recovering from severe facial and scalp lacerations, hospital officials reported. A fractured skull was listed as the cause of Burger's death.

The Rev. Bertram Croop officiated at the funeral service. Burial was in Wood Cemetery, Ossian, where military ceremonies were conducted by the Daniel Goho American Legion Post firing squad. (Genesee County Express, November 17, 1960, p1)

Robert married Mary Jane Weidman on 25 Aug 1951. Mary (daughter of Raymond Burrell Weidman and Addie Mary Linzy) was born on 15 Nov 1931 in Ossian, Livingston County, New York; died on 7 Feb 2019 in Dansville, Livingston County, New York; was buried in Wood Cemetery, Ossian, Livingston County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]