Someone on the list was working on the Burcham family. 2:52:13 PM Tuesday, January 9, 2001 Randall Parks Burcham of Germantown, formerly of Union City, died at Baptist Memorial Hospital-East in Memphis Jan. 6, 2001. Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at White-Ranson Funeral Home, with the Rev. John Archer officiating. Burial will follow in East View Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home 6-8 this evening. Pallbearers will be E.L. Jessup, Robert W. Wood, E.B. Tanner, James M. Glasgow, Don Lattus, Gene Fisher, Bill Wilson, Julian Campbell, Robert O. Johnson, Steve Beale, James H. Huggins and John Huggins. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Obion County Bar Association, the Union City Rotary Club and the Character Builders Sunday School Class of First United Methodist Church in Union City, where he was a member. The family requests that memorials be made to the general scholarship fund of Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., and mailed to the Development Office, 800 Lakeshore Dr., Birmingham, Ala., 35229; or to the Obion County Library. Burcham was born July 20, 1917, in the Clayton community of Obion County, son of the late John Simps and Myrtle Caldwell (Howard) Burcham. He was a 1934 graduate of the former Dixie High School and he attended Murray State University and the University of Mississippi, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He earned his law degree from Cumberland University in 1940 and was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1941. A veteran, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1941-1945 as an Air Defense Officer and Legal Officer aboard the U.S.S. Nevada, participating in the Normandy D-Day Invasion, the invasion of southern France, the Battle of Attu and the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He was discharged in 1945 with the rank of commander. On Sept. 30, 1945, he married the former Hellon Owens. She died Nov. 1, 2000. He was engaged in private law practice in Union City until 1992, when he retired and moved with his wife to Germantown. The first chairman of the disciplinary board of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, he was also a former member of the Governors of Tennessee Bar Association, was a fellow of the American College of Probate Counsel, was former vice president of the Tennessee Jaycees, was a Rotarian and was former commander of the American Legion Post in Union City. He was also former chairman of the Board of Stewards of First United Methodist Church in Union City and was a member of Character Builders Sunday School class. He is survived by a son, Randall Parks Burcham Jr. of Germantown; a daughter, Susan Burcham of Nashville; a grandson, Randall Parks Burcham III of Germantown; a sister, Mrs. James H. (Marie) Beal of Nashville; and several nieces and nephews. He was also preceded in death by two sisters, Mrs. James D. (Margaret) Huggins and Mrs. Rob (Elizabeth) Adams; and three brothers, Robert Elbert Burcham, James Emmett Burcham and John Briggs Burcham. Genealogy Speaking Jane Norton Powell, [email protected] Obion Co TN Pedigrees & Jane's Connections http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jane1 TNGenWeb http://www.tngennet.org/ Obion Co. TNGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnobion/ Haywood Co. TNGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnhaywoo/