OBITUARY - Burney Cannaday (Roanoke newspaper abt May 29, 1959)
Deputy City Sgt. Suffers Fatal Attack -- Deputy City Sgt. Albert Burney Cannaday, 62, died of an apparent heart attack suffered while driving his car yesterday.
Cannaday, of 517 Highland Ave., S.W., was headed west on Persinger road, SW, about 3 p.m. At the intersection of Brambleton avenue his car left the road, struck a telephone pole, and continued across Brambleton onto West drive, where it finally stopped in a driveway in the 1400 block.
An ambulance took Cannaday to a hospital, but he was dead on arival. Dr. Charles M. Irvin, city medical examiner, said Cannaday apparently died of natural death due to heart failure.
Shortly before his death, Cannaday had been planting flowers at a friend's home and complained of a pain in his chester.
Cannaday, a city employee for 35 years, came to work in the engineering department in 1924 and became a deputy city sergeant in 1944. A native of Roanoke and a World War I veteran, he was also known as one of Roanoke's first weather reporters.
Survinging are two sons, Albert A. and Richard Cannaday, formerly of Roanoke; two brothers, Alvin G. and Paul A. Cannaday, both of Roanoke: and one sister, Mrs. Harry Nichols of Norfolk.
The funeral will be conducted tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at Oakey's by the Rev. J.E. Stockman. Burial will be in Fairview.
Deputy City Sgt. Suffers Fatal Attack -- Deputy City Sgt. Albert Burney Cannaday, 62, died of an apparent heart attack suffered while driving his car yesterday.
Cannaday, of 517 Highland Ave., S.W., was headed west on Persinger road, SW, about 3 p.m. At the intersection of Brambleton avenue his car left the road, struck a telephone pole, and continued across Brambleton onto West drive, where it finally stopped in a driveway in the 1400 block.
An ambulance took Cannaday to a hospital, but he was dead on arival. Dr. Charles M. Irvin, city medical examiner, said Cannaday apparently died of natural death due to heart failure.
Shortly before his death, Cannaday had been planting flowers at a friend's home and complained of a pain in his chester.
Cannaday, a city employee for 35 years, came to work in the engineering department in 1924 and became a deputy city sergeant in 1944. A native of Roanoke and a World War I veteran, he was also known as one of Roanoke's first weather reporters.
Survinging are two sons, Albert A. and Richard Cannaday, formerly of Roanoke; two brothers, Alvin G. and Paul A. Cannaday, both of Roanoke: and one sister, Mrs. Harry Nichols of Norfolk.
The funeral will be conducted tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at Oakey's by the Rev. J.E. Stockman. Burial will be in Fairview.
OBITUARY - Burney Cannaday (Roanoke newspaper abt May 29, 1959)
Deputy City Sgt. Suffers Fatal Attack -- Deputy City Sgt. Albert Burney Cannaday, 62, died of an apparent heart attack suffered while driving his car yesterday.
Cannaday, of 517 Highland Ave., S.W., was headed west on Persinger road, SW, about 3 p.m. At the intersection of Brambleton avenue his car left the road, struck a telephone pole, and continued across Brambleton onto West drive, where it finally stopped in a driveway in the 1400 block.
An ambulance took Cannaday to a hospital, but he was dead on arival. Dr. Charles M. Irvin, city medical examiner, said Cannaday apparently died of natural death due to heart failure.
Shortly before his death, Cannaday had been planting flowers at a friend's home and complained of a pain in his chester.
Cannaday, a city employee for 35 years, came to work in the engineering department in 1924 and became a deputy city sergeant in 1944. A native of Roanoke and a World War I veteran, he was also known as one of Roanoke's first weather reporters.
Survinging are two sons, Albert A. and Richard Cannaday, formerly of Roanoke; two brothers, Alvin G. and Paul A. Cannaday, both of Roanoke: and one sister, Mrs. Harry Nichols of Norfolk.
The funeral will be conducted tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at Oakey's by the Rev. J.E. Stockman. Burial will be in Fairview.
Deputy City Sgt. Suffers Fatal Attack -- Deputy City Sgt. Albert Burney Cannaday, 62, died of an apparent heart attack suffered while driving his car yesterday.
Cannaday, of 517 Highland Ave., S.W., was headed west on Persinger road, SW, about 3 p.m. At the intersection of Brambleton avenue his car left the road, struck a telephone pole, and continued across Brambleton onto West drive, where it finally stopped in a driveway in the 1400 block.
An ambulance took Cannaday to a hospital, but he was dead on arival. Dr. Charles M. Irvin, city medical examiner, said Cannaday apparently died of natural death due to heart failure.
Shortly before his death, Cannaday had been planting flowers at a friend's home and complained of a pain in his chester.
Cannaday, a city employee for 35 years, came to work in the engineering department in 1924 and became a deputy city sergeant in 1944. A native of Roanoke and a World War I veteran, he was also known as one of Roanoke's first weather reporters.
Survinging are two sons, Albert A. and Richard Cannaday, formerly of Roanoke; two brothers, Alvin G. and Paul A. Cannaday, both of Roanoke: and one sister, Mrs. Harry Nichols of Norfolk.
The funeral will be conducted tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at Oakey's by the Rev. J.E. Stockman. Burial will be in Fairview.
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