AL Burruss, of Marietta, Georgia majority leader of the state House of Representatives, died of cancer of the pancreas Saturday at Kennestone Hospital. He was 58. Burruss had entered Kennestone Hospital for exploratory surgery March 10 after experiencing unusual pain during the 1986 legislative session, said his wife, Bobbi Elrod Burruss of Marietta. During the surgery, cancer was discovered. Burruss' wife was beside him when he died at 7 a.m., a hospital spokeswoman said. He had been resting comfortably, she said. The funeral was at Marietta First United Methodist Church with burial at Kennesaw Memorial Park Cemetery.
Burruss was the House majority leader, or the ranking Democrat, from 1982 until his death. He had been speaker pro tem from 1973-76 and majority whip in 1981-82. He served one term on the Cobb County Commission, from 1964 to 1968, and nine terms in the state House of Representatives, from 1969 until his death. Burruss' victories reflected his strong popularity in Cobb, despite its swing to Republicanism in recent years.
He was an immense success in business, too, as principal owner of Tip Top Poultry Inc., a Marietta chicken company with 400 employees processing 4,200 hens and roosters an hour and 1985 sales of $25 million, said minority partner Chet Austin. Burruss also was a major stockholder in Gem City Poultry Transport, Poultry Specialists and a Pontiac dealership in Cornelia. But despite his political power and wealth, Burruss was an unusually self-effacing, personable man and one of the most accessible legislators, state officials said. Burruss liked calling himself "a simple chicken plucker," and he frequently gave away his Tip Top Poultry chicken to needy families, Monnie Sellers, administrative assistant to the House Ways and Means Committee, said. "There is a story told about Al that he gave away so much chicken out of his share of the company profits that it became necessary for management to take the freezer key away from him," she said.
Members of families whom Burruss had helped at various times visited him at the hospital earlier this year "by the thousands," Mrs. Sellers said. Burruss was a certified lay speaker of the United Methodist Church, said the Rev. Comer Brownlow, associate pastor of First United Methodist Church of Marietta, where Burruss also was an administrative board member. The legislator had worked as a school janitor while attending Smyrna High School. He "never forgot what he came from," said his wife. After becoming financially independent, Burruss kept running for public office "because it was a way to help people," she said. His accessibility at the state Capitol made Burruss a well-liked legislator. "Al spends a giant portion of his time helping anyone who seeks his counsel," four state representatives wrote in a March 19 letter to Frederick Allen, political editor of The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. The four are Tom Crosby, Bill Dover, Tom Kilgore and Roger Williams. "Members of the House . . . flock to his side for technical and political advice in drawing bills and amendments," the four wrote. "Al is never too busy to help any person." Burruss "seemed to have eight days a week, while others only had seven," his wife recalled.
Despite the demands of his business and political life, he rose early each morning and cooked breakfast for his children. "That was his special time with them," Mrs. Burruss said. His desk in the House chamber was on the second row, but he rarely sat there. Instead, Burruss stood, sat on the floor, or kneeled, trying to alleviate pain caused by arthritis, said Mrs. Burruss. An emotional man, Burruss wept before his colleagues at least twice, in 1971 after failing to gain an appointment as state transportation commissioner, and in 1973 after his election as speaker pro tem. Few other Georgians had as much influence as Burruss in shaping recent state budgets, according to state leaders and reporters covering the state Capitol. In addition to serving as majority leader in the House, where spending bills begin, Burruss sat on the budget committee and the House-Senate budget conference committee. In a 1986 straw poll of legislators, he was voted the House's "best negotiator." Burruss also was a member of two history-making groups. The first was the 1978-82 Select Committee on Constitutional Revision, which wrote a new state constitution adopted by voters in 1983. And he was one of the members of the 1984-85 Educational Review Commission, which studied options prior to the passage of Gov. Joe Frank Harris' landmark Quality Basic Education Act in 1985.
A.L. Burruss was born July 3, 1927, in the Hopewell community in north Forsyth County. He was the oldest of 11 children of Chess and Eula Burruss. His mother named him for his grandfathers, men named Alfred and Luther. But she disliked both names, and gave him only the initials. Later, an employer dubbed him "Al." His family moved to Smyrna when he was 7 or 8, and his father got a job as a painter and carpenter. As Smyrna High student-janitor, one of Burruss' jobs was to start the furnace on winter mornings. He also was a mail clerk at the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta. He graduated from high school in 1944.
His military record helped shape his future success. Burruss was in boot camp as the war ended. Later, he was stationed in the Philippines, and still later attended a stateside school that won his promotion to the rank of refrigeration machinist mate. Discharged and back home, Burruss started a refrigeration business. Tip Top Poultry was one of his clients. In about 1950, when Tip Top's owners decided to sell, Burruss bought out one of two partners, and was later joined by Austin, his boyhood friend. In 1962, Burruss was the Kennesaw Mountain Jaycees' "young man of the year." Two years later, Burruss was elected to a seat on Cobb County's new multimember commission. Later, an angry constituent called the Burruss home while he was away. The caller said there wasn't "a teacup full of brains" in all five commissioners' heads, according to newspaper columnist Celestine Sibley. Mrs. Burruss answered the phone, and rose to the defense of her husband, neglecting a food dish cooking on the stove. The kitchen caught fire, resulting in $4,000 worth of damage. Burruss also had to rebuild in 1976, when his political career suffered serious damage.
Then speaker pro tem, Burruss challenged incumbent House Speaker Tom Murphy in a bid for Murphy's post. Needing 76 votes to win, he had "86 blood oaths," Burruss recalled. But he lost, 98-58. Afterward, he was stripped of his important committee assignments. During the next six years, Burruss slowly regained power. Once he had been Murphy's principal challenger; now he became one of the speaker's principal allies. Burruss was a former president of the Georgia Poultry Federation, the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association, and the Marietta Western Little League. He was a former member of the Southern Tech Foundation and Kennestone Hospital Authority, andalso belonged to the Cobb Chamber of Commerce and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. The Marietta Daily Journal named Burruss "Cobb County citizen of the year" in 1983, and the Cobb Bar Association presented him its "Liberty Bell Award" in 1986. He belonged to the Kennesaw College Foundation and was an honorary alumnus of the school.
Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Robin Burruss of Marietta; a daughter, Renee Burruss-Davis of Marietta; four brothers, Jimmy Burruss of Marietta, Dan Burruss of Avondale Estates, and Buddy and Gerald Burruss, both of Smyrna; five sisters, Linda Moore of Sandy Springs, and Sarah Dunn, Betty Brown, Peggy Hulsey and Jane Ragan, all of Smyrna; and three grandchildren.
Burruss was the House majority leader, or the ranking Democrat, from 1982 until his death. He had been speaker pro tem from 1973-76 and majority whip in 1981-82. He served one term on the Cobb County Commission, from 1964 to 1968, and nine terms in the state House of Representatives, from 1969 until his death. Burruss' victories reflected his strong popularity in Cobb, despite its swing to Republicanism in recent years.
He was an immense success in business, too, as principal owner of Tip Top Poultry Inc., a Marietta chicken company with 400 employees processing 4,200 hens and roosters an hour and 1985 sales of $25 million, said minority partner Chet Austin. Burruss also was a major stockholder in Gem City Poultry Transport, Poultry Specialists and a Pontiac dealership in Cornelia. But despite his political power and wealth, Burruss was an unusually self-effacing, personable man and one of the most accessible legislators, state officials said. Burruss liked calling himself "a simple chicken plucker," and he frequently gave away his Tip Top Poultry chicken to needy families, Monnie Sellers, administrative assistant to the House Ways and Means Committee, said. "There is a story told about Al that he gave away so much chicken out of his share of the company profits that it became necessary for management to take the freezer key away from him," she said.
Members of families whom Burruss had helped at various times visited him at the hospital earlier this year "by the thousands," Mrs. Sellers said. Burruss was a certified lay speaker of the United Methodist Church, said the Rev. Comer Brownlow, associate pastor of First United Methodist Church of Marietta, where Burruss also was an administrative board member. The legislator had worked as a school janitor while attending Smyrna High School. He "never forgot what he came from," said his wife. After becoming financially independent, Burruss kept running for public office "because it was a way to help people," she said. His accessibility at the state Capitol made Burruss a well-liked legislator. "Al spends a giant portion of his time helping anyone who seeks his counsel," four state representatives wrote in a March 19 letter to Frederick Allen, political editor of The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. The four are Tom Crosby, Bill Dover, Tom Kilgore and Roger Williams. "Members of the House . . . flock to his side for technical and political advice in drawing bills and amendments," the four wrote. "Al is never too busy to help any person." Burruss "seemed to have eight days a week, while others only had seven," his wife recalled.
Despite the demands of his business and political life, he rose early each morning and cooked breakfast for his children. "That was his special time with them," Mrs. Burruss said. His desk in the House chamber was on the second row, but he rarely sat there. Instead, Burruss stood, sat on the floor, or kneeled, trying to alleviate pain caused by arthritis, said Mrs. Burruss. An emotional man, Burruss wept before his colleagues at least twice, in 1971 after failing to gain an appointment as state transportation commissioner, and in 1973 after his election as speaker pro tem. Few other Georgians had as much influence as Burruss in shaping recent state budgets, according to state leaders and reporters covering the state Capitol. In addition to serving as majority leader in the House, where spending bills begin, Burruss sat on the budget committee and the House-Senate budget conference committee. In a 1986 straw poll of legislators, he was voted the House's "best negotiator." Burruss also was a member of two history-making groups. The first was the 1978-82 Select Committee on Constitutional Revision, which wrote a new state constitution adopted by voters in 1983. And he was one of the members of the 1984-85 Educational Review Commission, which studied options prior to the passage of Gov. Joe Frank Harris' landmark Quality Basic Education Act in 1985.
A.L. Burruss was born July 3, 1927, in the Hopewell community in north Forsyth County. He was the oldest of 11 children of Chess and Eula Burruss. His mother named him for his grandfathers, men named Alfred and Luther. But she disliked both names, and gave him only the initials. Later, an employer dubbed him "Al." His family moved to Smyrna when he was 7 or 8, and his father got a job as a painter and carpenter. As Smyrna High student-janitor, one of Burruss' jobs was to start the furnace on winter mornings. He also was a mail clerk at the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta. He graduated from high school in 1944.
His military record helped shape his future success. Burruss was in boot camp as the war ended. Later, he was stationed in the Philippines, and still later attended a stateside school that won his promotion to the rank of refrigeration machinist mate. Discharged and back home, Burruss started a refrigeration business. Tip Top Poultry was one of his clients. In about 1950, when Tip Top's owners decided to sell, Burruss bought out one of two partners, and was later joined by Austin, his boyhood friend. In 1962, Burruss was the Kennesaw Mountain Jaycees' "young man of the year." Two years later, Burruss was elected to a seat on Cobb County's new multimember commission. Later, an angry constituent called the Burruss home while he was away. The caller said there wasn't "a teacup full of brains" in all five commissioners' heads, according to newspaper columnist Celestine Sibley. Mrs. Burruss answered the phone, and rose to the defense of her husband, neglecting a food dish cooking on the stove. The kitchen caught fire, resulting in $4,000 worth of damage. Burruss also had to rebuild in 1976, when his political career suffered serious damage.
Then speaker pro tem, Burruss challenged incumbent House Speaker Tom Murphy in a bid for Murphy's post. Needing 76 votes to win, he had "86 blood oaths," Burruss recalled. But he lost, 98-58. Afterward, he was stripped of his important committee assignments. During the next six years, Burruss slowly regained power. Once he had been Murphy's principal challenger; now he became one of the speaker's principal allies. Burruss was a former president of the Georgia Poultry Federation, the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association, and the Marietta Western Little League. He was a former member of the Southern Tech Foundation and Kennestone Hospital Authority, andalso belonged to the Cobb Chamber of Commerce and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. The Marietta Daily Journal named Burruss "Cobb County citizen of the year" in 1983, and the Cobb Bar Association presented him its "Liberty Bell Award" in 1986. He belonged to the Kennesaw College Foundation and was an honorary alumnus of the school.
Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Robin Burruss of Marietta; a daughter, Renee Burruss-Davis of Marietta; four brothers, Jimmy Burruss of Marietta, Dan Burruss of Avondale Estates, and Buddy and Gerald Burruss, both of Smyrna; five sisters, Linda Moore of Sandy Springs, and Sarah Dunn, Betty Brown, Peggy Hulsey and Jane Ragan, all of Smyrna; and three grandchildren.
AL Burruss, of Marietta, Georgia majority leader of the state House of Representatives, died of cancer of the pancreas Saturday at Kennestone Hospital. He was 58. Burruss had entered Kennestone Hospital for exploratory surgery March 10 after experiencing unusual pain during the 1986 legislative session, said his wife, Bobbi Elrod Burruss of Marietta. During the surgery, cancer was discovered. Burruss' wife was beside him when he died at 7 a.m., a hospital spokeswoman said. He had been resting comfortably, she said. The funeral was at Marietta First United Methodist Church with burial at Kennesaw Memorial Park Cemetery.
Burruss was the House majority leader, or the ranking Democrat, from 1982 until his death. He had been speaker pro tem from 1973-76 and majority whip in 1981-82. He served one term on the Cobb County Commission, from 1964 to 1968, and nine terms in the state House of Representatives, from 1969 until his death. Burruss' victories reflected his strong popularity in Cobb, despite its swing to Republicanism in recent years.
He was an immense success in business, too, as principal owner of Tip Top Poultry Inc., a Marietta chicken company with 400 employees processing 4,200 hens and roosters an hour and 1985 sales of $25 million, said minority partner Chet Austin. Burruss also was a major stockholder in Gem City Poultry Transport, Poultry Specialists and a Pontiac dealership in Cornelia. But despite his political power and wealth, Burruss was an unusually self-effacing, personable man and one of the most accessible legislators, state officials said. Burruss liked calling himself "a simple chicken plucker," and he frequently gave away his Tip Top Poultry chicken to needy families, Monnie Sellers, administrative assistant to the House Ways and Means Committee, said. "There is a story told about Al that he gave away so much chicken out of his share of the company profits that it became necessary for management to take the freezer key away from him," she said.
Members of families whom Burruss had helped at various times visited him at the hospital earlier this year "by the thousands," Mrs. Sellers said. Burruss was a certified lay speaker of the United Methodist Church, said the Rev. Comer Brownlow, associate pastor of First United Methodist Church of Marietta, where Burruss also was an administrative board member. The legislator had worked as a school janitor while attending Smyrna High School. He "never forgot what he came from," said his wife. After becoming financially independent, Burruss kept running for public office "because it was a way to help people," she said. His accessibility at the state Capitol made Burruss a well-liked legislator. "Al spends a giant portion of his time helping anyone who seeks his counsel," four state representatives wrote in a March 19 letter to Frederick Allen, political editor of The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. The four are Tom Crosby, Bill Dover, Tom Kilgore and Roger Williams. "Members of the House . . . flock to his side for technical and political advice in drawing bills and amendments," the four wrote. "Al is never too busy to help any person." Burruss "seemed to have eight days a week, while others only had seven," his wife recalled.
Despite the demands of his business and political life, he rose early each morning and cooked breakfast for his children. "That was his special time with them," Mrs. Burruss said. His desk in the House chamber was on the second row, but he rarely sat there. Instead, Burruss stood, sat on the floor, or kneeled, trying to alleviate pain caused by arthritis, said Mrs. Burruss. An emotional man, Burruss wept before his colleagues at least twice, in 1971 after failing to gain an appointment as state transportation commissioner, and in 1973 after his election as speaker pro tem. Few other Georgians had as much influence as Burruss in shaping recent state budgets, according to state leaders and reporters covering the state Capitol. In addition to serving as majority leader in the House, where spending bills begin, Burruss sat on the budget committee and the House-Senate budget conference committee. In a 1986 straw poll of legislators, he was voted the House's "best negotiator." Burruss also was a member of two history-making groups. The first was the 1978-82 Select Committee on Constitutional Revision, which wrote a new state constitution adopted by voters in 1983. And he was one of the members of the 1984-85 Educational Review Commission, which studied options prior to the passage of Gov. Joe Frank Harris' landmark Quality Basic Education Act in 1985.
A.L. Burruss was born July 3, 1927, in the Hopewell community in north Forsyth County. He was the oldest of 11 children of Chess and Eula Burruss. His mother named him for his grandfathers, men named Alfred and Luther. But she disliked both names, and gave him only the initials. Later, an employer dubbed him "Al." His family moved to Smyrna when he was 7 or 8, and his father got a job as a painter and carpenter. As Smyrna High student-janitor, one of Burruss' jobs was to start the furnace on winter mornings. He also was a mail clerk at the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta. He graduated from high school in 1944.
His military record helped shape his future success. Burruss was in boot camp as the war ended. Later, he was stationed in the Philippines, and still later attended a stateside school that won his promotion to the rank of refrigeration machinist mate. Discharged and back home, Burruss started a refrigeration business. Tip Top Poultry was one of his clients. In about 1950, when Tip Top's owners decided to sell, Burruss bought out one of two partners, and was later joined by Austin, his boyhood friend. In 1962, Burruss was the Kennesaw Mountain Jaycees' "young man of the year." Two years later, Burruss was elected to a seat on Cobb County's new multimember commission. Later, an angry constituent called the Burruss home while he was away. The caller said there wasn't "a teacup full of brains" in all five commissioners' heads, according to newspaper columnist Celestine Sibley. Mrs. Burruss answered the phone, and rose to the defense of her husband, neglecting a food dish cooking on the stove. The kitchen caught fire, resulting in $4,000 worth of damage. Burruss also had to rebuild in 1976, when his political career suffered serious damage.
Then speaker pro tem, Burruss challenged incumbent House Speaker Tom Murphy in a bid for Murphy's post. Needing 76 votes to win, he had "86 blood oaths," Burruss recalled. But he lost, 98-58. Afterward, he was stripped of his important committee assignments. During the next six years, Burruss slowly regained power. Once he had been Murphy's principal challenger; now he became one of the speaker's principal allies. Burruss was a former president of the Georgia Poultry Federation, the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association, and the Marietta Western Little League. He was a former member of the Southern Tech Foundation and Kennestone Hospital Authority, andalso belonged to the Cobb Chamber of Commerce and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. The Marietta Daily Journal named Burruss "Cobb County citizen of the year" in 1983, and the Cobb Bar Association presented him its "Liberty Bell Award" in 1986. He belonged to the Kennesaw College Foundation and was an honorary alumnus of the school.
Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Robin Burruss of Marietta; a daughter, Renee Burruss-Davis of Marietta; four brothers, Jimmy Burruss of Marietta, Dan Burruss of Avondale Estates, and Buddy and Gerald Burruss, both of Smyrna; five sisters, Linda Moore of Sandy Springs, and Sarah Dunn, Betty Brown, Peggy Hulsey and Jane Ragan, all of Smyrna; and three grandchildren.
Burruss was the House majority leader, or the ranking Democrat, from 1982 until his death. He had been speaker pro tem from 1973-76 and majority whip in 1981-82. He served one term on the Cobb County Commission, from 1964 to 1968, and nine terms in the state House of Representatives, from 1969 until his death. Burruss' victories reflected his strong popularity in Cobb, despite its swing to Republicanism in recent years.
He was an immense success in business, too, as principal owner of Tip Top Poultry Inc., a Marietta chicken company with 400 employees processing 4,200 hens and roosters an hour and 1985 sales of $25 million, said minority partner Chet Austin. Burruss also was a major stockholder in Gem City Poultry Transport, Poultry Specialists and a Pontiac dealership in Cornelia. But despite his political power and wealth, Burruss was an unusually self-effacing, personable man and one of the most accessible legislators, state officials said. Burruss liked calling himself "a simple chicken plucker," and he frequently gave away his Tip Top Poultry chicken to needy families, Monnie Sellers, administrative assistant to the House Ways and Means Committee, said. "There is a story told about Al that he gave away so much chicken out of his share of the company profits that it became necessary for management to take the freezer key away from him," she said.
Members of families whom Burruss had helped at various times visited him at the hospital earlier this year "by the thousands," Mrs. Sellers said. Burruss was a certified lay speaker of the United Methodist Church, said the Rev. Comer Brownlow, associate pastor of First United Methodist Church of Marietta, where Burruss also was an administrative board member. The legislator had worked as a school janitor while attending Smyrna High School. He "never forgot what he came from," said his wife. After becoming financially independent, Burruss kept running for public office "because it was a way to help people," she said. His accessibility at the state Capitol made Burruss a well-liked legislator. "Al spends a giant portion of his time helping anyone who seeks his counsel," four state representatives wrote in a March 19 letter to Frederick Allen, political editor of The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. The four are Tom Crosby, Bill Dover, Tom Kilgore and Roger Williams. "Members of the House . . . flock to his side for technical and political advice in drawing bills and amendments," the four wrote. "Al is never too busy to help any person." Burruss "seemed to have eight days a week, while others only had seven," his wife recalled.
Despite the demands of his business and political life, he rose early each morning and cooked breakfast for his children. "That was his special time with them," Mrs. Burruss said. His desk in the House chamber was on the second row, but he rarely sat there. Instead, Burruss stood, sat on the floor, or kneeled, trying to alleviate pain caused by arthritis, said Mrs. Burruss. An emotional man, Burruss wept before his colleagues at least twice, in 1971 after failing to gain an appointment as state transportation commissioner, and in 1973 after his election as speaker pro tem. Few other Georgians had as much influence as Burruss in shaping recent state budgets, according to state leaders and reporters covering the state Capitol. In addition to serving as majority leader in the House, where spending bills begin, Burruss sat on the budget committee and the House-Senate budget conference committee. In a 1986 straw poll of legislators, he was voted the House's "best negotiator." Burruss also was a member of two history-making groups. The first was the 1978-82 Select Committee on Constitutional Revision, which wrote a new state constitution adopted by voters in 1983. And he was one of the members of the 1984-85 Educational Review Commission, which studied options prior to the passage of Gov. Joe Frank Harris' landmark Quality Basic Education Act in 1985.
A.L. Burruss was born July 3, 1927, in the Hopewell community in north Forsyth County. He was the oldest of 11 children of Chess and Eula Burruss. His mother named him for his grandfathers, men named Alfred and Luther. But she disliked both names, and gave him only the initials. Later, an employer dubbed him "Al." His family moved to Smyrna when he was 7 or 8, and his father got a job as a painter and carpenter. As Smyrna High student-janitor, one of Burruss' jobs was to start the furnace on winter mornings. He also was a mail clerk at the Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta. He graduated from high school in 1944.
His military record helped shape his future success. Burruss was in boot camp as the war ended. Later, he was stationed in the Philippines, and still later attended a stateside school that won his promotion to the rank of refrigeration machinist mate. Discharged and back home, Burruss started a refrigeration business. Tip Top Poultry was one of his clients. In about 1950, when Tip Top's owners decided to sell, Burruss bought out one of two partners, and was later joined by Austin, his boyhood friend. In 1962, Burruss was the Kennesaw Mountain Jaycees' "young man of the year." Two years later, Burruss was elected to a seat on Cobb County's new multimember commission. Later, an angry constituent called the Burruss home while he was away. The caller said there wasn't "a teacup full of brains" in all five commissioners' heads, according to newspaper columnist Celestine Sibley. Mrs. Burruss answered the phone, and rose to the defense of her husband, neglecting a food dish cooking on the stove. The kitchen caught fire, resulting in $4,000 worth of damage. Burruss also had to rebuild in 1976, when his political career suffered serious damage.
Then speaker pro tem, Burruss challenged incumbent House Speaker Tom Murphy in a bid for Murphy's post. Needing 76 votes to win, he had "86 blood oaths," Burruss recalled. But he lost, 98-58. Afterward, he was stripped of his important committee assignments. During the next six years, Burruss slowly regained power. Once he had been Murphy's principal challenger; now he became one of the speaker's principal allies. Burruss was a former president of the Georgia Poultry Federation, the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association, and the Marietta Western Little League. He was a former member of the Southern Tech Foundation and Kennestone Hospital Authority, andalso belonged to the Cobb Chamber of Commerce and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. The Marietta Daily Journal named Burruss "Cobb County citizen of the year" in 1983, and the Cobb Bar Association presented him its "Liberty Bell Award" in 1986. He belonged to the Kennesaw College Foundation and was an honorary alumnus of the school.
Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Robin Burruss of Marietta; a daughter, Renee Burruss-Davis of Marietta; four brothers, Jimmy Burruss of Marietta, Dan Burruss of Avondale Estates, and Buddy and Gerald Burruss, both of Smyrna; five sisters, Linda Moore of Sandy Springs, and Sarah Dunn, Betty Brown, Peggy Hulsey and Jane Ragan, all of Smyrna; and three grandchildren.
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