Visitation will be 10:00am-2:00pm Friday, January 18, 2013 at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. Funeral services will follow in the funeral home chapel with interment in Floral Hills Memory Gardens.
She was born September 15, 1929 in Greene County, Mississippi, a daughter of the late Melvin M. West and Emma Mable Hardy West. She was a member of Eastside Baptist Church in Pearl for more than 40 years and previously a member of First Baptist Church in Leakesville. Mrs. Burgess retired from the MS State Attorney General’s Office and was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Willis Burgess; son, Rev. Simeon Nix; brothers, Melvin West, Jr. and Adrian West; and sister, Peggy Walley.
Survivors include daughter, Patricia Dalton and husband Bob; grandchildren, Jason Crider and wife Leslie, Andrew Dalton, Bre’Ana Nix and Sterling Nix; and great-grandchildren, Elijah and Elizabeth Crider.