TITLE:  Judith "Judy" Messervy Burress

SOURCE:  The Post and Courier

SUBMITTED BY:  The Post and Courier

FORMATTED BY:  Kim Grissom, Jun 2003

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BURRESS, Judith
Judith "Judy" Messervy Burress, 55, of Summerville, widow of Samuel 
Sydney Burress, Jr. died Saturday morning in a Charleston hospital.
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, October 9, 2001 at 11:00 
o'clock in James A. Dyal Funeral Home Chapel, Summerville. Burial 
will be in Dorchester Memory Gardens, Summerville. Friends may call 
at James A. Dyal Funeral Home, Summerville from 6 until 8 o'clock this
evening. Born on October 8, 1945, in Charleston, South Carolina, a 
daughter of the late Wilkie Tilden Messervy, Jr. and Retha Mae Best 
Messervy. Mrs. Burress was the first successful lung transplant 
recipient from the Medical University of South Carolina. She was a 
graduate of Summerville High School. She was a retired secretary with 
Charleston Air Force Base. She attended New Life Baptist Church.
Surviving are one brother, Clayton Messervy of Eutawville; one sister, 
Dianne M. Feltner of Summerville; one niece; four nephews; 5 
great-nieces and 3 great-nephews. Arrangements by JAMES A. DYAL 
FUNERAL HOME, 303 SOUTH MAIN STREET, SUMMERVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA.
(Published Oct 8, 2001)
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