Chaney,
Margaret Marie Burgess Howard Starr,[80], widow of Luther Melvin Chaney, Sr.,
died Tuesday March 16, 2004 at the St. Joseph Hospital. She was born in Madison
County at Newby, Ky., daughter of the late Samuel Taylor Burgess and Nettie
Howard Burgess. A retired employee of the Lexington Blue-Grass Army Depot as a
Digital Computer Operation Supervisor with 28 years of service. Survived by
three sisters, Mrs. Lillian Sallee, Mrs. Kyle Glenmore [Madaline], both of
Richmond, and Mrs. Fannie Taylor of Winchester, Ky.. two step-children from her
marriage to Colonel William F. Starr, Mrs. John Moon [Sandra], of Huntsville,
Alabama and FCCS William F. Starr, Jr., Yokosuka, Japan, two step-children from
her marriage to Lt. Col. Luther M. Chaney, Sr., Luther M. Chaney, Jr. [Susan],
DeFuniak Springs, Florida and Shirley Kathleen Quinta, [ Gerald], Dunedin,
Florida, four step-grandchildren and seven step- great grandchildren, and a
number of nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by her three
husbands and four brothers, Carl, Vernon, James Robert and Ernest Burgess of
Middletown, Ohio.A member of Calvary Baptist Church, its Joy Sunday School Class
and the Calvary Singers and Sanctuary Choir. She was also a member of the
Keeneland Club, Spindletop Faculty Club, Winchester Country Club, National
Association of Retired Federal Employees, Womens Club of Central Kentucky,
former member of the Northwood Homemakers Club, a sustaining member of the
Samaritan Hospital Auxillary, auxillary member of the Bluegrass Chapter Military
Officers Association of America. Since 1990 she has been a control subject in
the research project on Alzheimer’s disease at Sanders Brown Center on Aging and
donated her brain for research, also participation in research for the
prevention of Herpes Zoster [ Shingles] at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
She was an avid golfer, sports fan, and had a host of friends. She will be
remembered for honesty, integrity, loyalty and gracious generosity. Funeral
services will be 11:30 A.M. Monday at the W.R.Milward Mortuary-Broadway
conducted by Dr. Robert Baker, Rev. Robert Taylor and Rev. W. K. Simmons with
burial in the Lexington Cemetery. Casketbearers will be her nephews. Honorary
bearers will be George Stead, Barry Dedmon, Archie Dedmon, Bobby Williams, and
members of the Joy Sunday School Class and Calvary Singers. Friends may call 5-8
P.M. Sunday. The family requests contributions to Alzheimer’s Association of the
Bluegrass, 836 Euclid Avenue, Lexington, Kentucky 40502, to Hospice of the
Bluegrass 2312 Alexandria Drive, Lexington, Kentucky 40504, the American Cancer
Society, 160 Moore Drive, Lexington, Kentucky 40503, the American Heart
Association, 2201 Regency Road. Lexington, Kentucky 40503 or to Calvary Baptist
Church, 150 East High Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40507.
Chaney,
Margaret Marie Burgess Howard Starr,[80], widow of Luther Melvin Chaney, Sr.,
died Tuesday March 16, 2004 at the St. Joseph Hospital. She was born in Madison
County at Newby, Ky., daughter of the late Samuel Taylor Burgess and Nettie
Howard Burgess. A retired employee of the Lexington Blue-Grass Army Depot as a
Digital Computer Operation Supervisor with 28 years of service. Survived by
three sisters, Mrs. Lillian Sallee, Mrs. Kyle Glenmore [Madaline], both of
Richmond, and Mrs. Fannie Taylor of Winchester, Ky.. two step-children from her
marriage to Colonel William F. Starr, Mrs. John Moon [Sandra], of Huntsville,
Alabama and FCCS William F. Starr, Jr., Yokosuka, Japan, two step-children from
her marriage to Lt. Col. Luther M. Chaney, Sr., Luther M. Chaney, Jr. [Susan],
DeFuniak Springs, Florida and Shirley Kathleen Quinta, [ Gerald], Dunedin,
Florida, four step-grandchildren and seven step- great grandchildren, and a
number of nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by her three
husbands and four brothers, Carl, Vernon, James Robert and Ernest Burgess of
Middletown, Ohio.A member of Calvary Baptist Church, its Joy Sunday School Class
and the Calvary Singers and Sanctuary Choir. She was also a member of the
Keeneland Club, Spindletop Faculty Club, Winchester Country Club, National
Association of Retired Federal Employees, Womens Club of Central Kentucky,
former member of the Northwood Homemakers Club, a sustaining member of the
Samaritan Hospital Auxillary, auxillary member of the Bluegrass Chapter Military
Officers Association of America. Since 1990 she has been a control subject in
the research project on Alzheimer’s disease at Sanders Brown Center on Aging and
donated her brain for research, also participation in research for the
prevention of Herpes Zoster [ Shingles] at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
She was an avid golfer, sports fan, and had a host of friends. She will be
remembered for honesty, integrity, loyalty and gracious generosity. Funeral
services will be 11:30 A.M. Monday at the W.R.Milward Mortuary-Broadway
conducted by Dr. Robert Baker, Rev. Robert Taylor and Rev. W. K. Simmons with
burial in the Lexington Cemetery. Casketbearers will be her nephews. Honorary
bearers will be George Stead, Barry Dedmon, Archie Dedmon, Bobby Williams, and
members of the Joy Sunday School Class and Calvary Singers. Friends may call 5-8
P.M. Sunday. The family requests contributions to Alzheimer’s Association of the
Bluegrass, 836 Euclid Avenue, Lexington, Kentucky 40502, to Hospice of the
Bluegrass 2312 Alexandria Drive, Lexington, Kentucky 40504, the American Cancer
Society, 160 Moore Drive, Lexington, Kentucky 40503, the American Heart
Association, 2201 Regency Road. Lexington, Kentucky 40503 or to Calvary Baptist
Church, 150 East High Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40507.