Terry Lee Burgess

Jul 28, 2025

Terry Lee Burgess, of Alexandria, Virginia, passed away quietly at home on Monday, July 28, 2025. He was 79.He was born December 2, 1945, in San Antonio, Texas, the adopted son of Aubrey Lee Burgess and Hazel Lucille Wacey Burgess. After graduating from high school, he joined the Air Force and was stationed for a time in Germany. He left...

Bessie Cobb Howard

Jul 27, 2025

Bessie Etta Cobb Howard, Ph.D., a matriarch of the Howard and Cobb families, passed away peacefully on July 27, 2025, just shy of her 96th birthday, in Vienna, Virginia. Dr. Howard was born on August 12, 1929 in Louisville, Kentucky as the second child of James Blaine Cobb, a prominent union attorney, and Leona Marie Cobb, the former matriarch of...