OBITUARY — Marie Burgess

MARIE BURGESS

Nov. 8, 1937-Aug. 14, 2025

Funeral services for Marie Burgess, 87, of Waynesboro, will be at 11 
a.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025 from the Chapel of Freeman Funeral Home, 
with Rev. Billy Trull and Rev. Larry Reynolds officiating. Visitation 
will be from 9-11 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025 from the Parlor of 
Freeman Funeral Home.

Following the funeral service, interment will take place at Buckatunna 
Free Will Baptist Cemetery in Buckatunna.

Born in Millry, Ala., on Monday, Nov. 8, 1937 to the late Frank Lee 
Tate, Sr., and Zoey Crane Tate, she was a member of Buckatunna Free Will 
Baptist Church. She worked as a Supervisor at Wells Lamont and later 
retired from NECO.

She died on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 at her residence.

She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Edward Allen and 
Patricia Burgess of Collins and Terry Joe and Jessie L. Burgess of 
Buckatunna; her daughter and son-in-law, Janie Brugess and Richard 
"Dickie" Fick of State Line; her brother and sister-in-law, Winston and 
Jane Tate of JAckson, Ala.; her sister and brother-in-law, Glendine and 
Odell Miller of Oxford; seven grandchildren and their respective 
spouses, Amanda and Neal Street, Travis and Chelcie Burgess, Taylor and 
Jasmine Brugess, Leslie and Mark Holder, Kelly and Phillip Dykes, T.J. 
and Andy Burgess and Justin L. and Angie Burgess; 14 great-grandchildren 
and their respective spouses, Caleb and Abby, Brent, Jack, Sophie, 
Halle, Reaghan, Caroline, Carson, Jett, Ellie, Emmy, Andrew, John and 
James; and a host of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John Allen Burgess; her 
parents, Frank Lee Tate, Sr., and Zoey Crante Tate; two brothers, Frank 
Tate, Jr., and Roy Tate; and two sisters, Hazel Sells and Bertha Beech.

An online guestbook can be signed at www.freemanfh.com.

Freeman Funeral Home of Waynesboro is in charge of arrangements.