WWII veteran
US Army, PFC

Burman Novea Grantham, 78, of Washington Avenue at 6th Street, S.E., Pulaski, died Saturday morning, July 12, 1997, in the Virginia Veterans Care Center in Roanoke after a long illness. He was born in Pulaski on April 20, 1919, and was the son of the late William Novea Grantham and Mary Jennings Grantham of Pulaski.

He was a member of Thornspring United Methodist Church, and a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, serving as a Medical Aidman in the Asiatic Pacific Theatre. He was a lifetime member of Pulaski V.F.W. Post #1184 and Pulaski American Legion Post #7, and a former member of Pulaski Bassmasters Club. He was a retired employee of R.A.A.P. with 33 years of service.

Surviving are his wife of 56 years, Helen Hurst Grantham of Pulaski; one daughter and son-in-law, Jolene and Everett (''Sonny"") Alley of Salem; a son and daughter-in-law, Gale and Linda Grantham of Pulaski; a son and his fiancee, Douglas Grantham and Shirley Cochran of Radford; two granddaughters, Sabrina Conner and Angie Phillips of Dublin; three grandsons, David Alley of Salem, Todd Grantham of Lansing, Mich., and Tony Grantham of Pulaski; five great-grandchildren, Lucas and Jennifer Conner, Joshua and Ashley Burleson and Andrew Phillips, all of Dublin; one brother and sister-in-law, Thomas and Peggy Grantham of Conroe, Texas, and two sisters and a brother-in-law, Isabelle and Pete Blankenship of Salem and Stella Anderson of Kingsport, Tenn.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, July 14, 1997, at Stevens Funeral Chapel in Pulaski, Burial will follow in Highland Memory Garden s, Dublin, with Pulaski V.F.W. Post #1184 conducting the military graveside rites. Visiting will be Sunday evening at Stevens Funeral Home, where the family will receive friends from 7 until 9 p.m. Pallbearers will be Mr. Grantham's grandsons and great-grandsons. In lieu of flowers, the family wishes that memorials be made to the First Baptist Church Music Fund, Pulaski, Va. 24301. Arrangements by Stevens Funeral Home, Pulaski.

Roanoke Times, July 13, 1997

(Submitted by Barbara Chittum Hutchens #47335581)
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Parents: William Novel Grantham & Mary Jane Jennings