Welcome to Fairmount Cemetery in Denver Colorado!
The coordinates of this cache will bring you to the final resting place of William Burney, a Representative from Colorado to the 76th Congress of the United States and his wife. Perhaps to most a small footnote in the history of Colorado and the United Sates. To the cache owner he was something more. A grandfather we called Big Bill.
While I was not around during the William's short term in Congress I have fond memories of Big Bill and Grandma, evenings sitting on the front porch of their Jasmine Street home sipping Orange Crush and going over to the nearby Woolworth's lunch counter for a noontime meal.
From the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress -
"BURNEY, William Evans, a Representative from Colorado; born in Hubbard, Hill County, Tex., September 11, 1893; attended the public schools in Texas and the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque; during the First World War served in the United States Navy; moved to Pueblo, Colo., in 1924 and engaged in the life insurance business until 1942; member of the Pueblo board of education 1937-1943; member of the United States Army Reserve Corps 1924-1942, serving in all grades up to major; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John A. Martin and served from November 5, 1940, to January 3, 1941; was not a candidate for election to the full term in the Seventy-seventh Congress; was called to active duty in the Army as a major in January 1942 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in October 1942; returned to the United States from India and took command of Camp Ross in May 1945; left the service in December 1945 with the rank of colonel; resumed the life insurance business until his retirement; died in Denver, Colo., January 29, 1969; interment in Fairmount Cemetery."
To log this cache as found is simple. To log this cache as found you must post a photo of the headstone with something identifibly yours. Your GPS, a shoe, whatever!
The cemetry is free to the public and open during daylight hours only. Please be respectful of others and the residents!
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