Dateline: January 17, 2002

Usrey

Burt Usrey, age 87, died instantly on December 21, 2001, in Higley, Arizona, when the vehicle he was a passenger in was struck by an oncoming car. Andrew Adcock, formerly of Quail, was the driver.

Burt graduated from Shamrock High School in the mid-thirties. He moved with his parents, Burt and Mattie Usrey, to Hedley in the late thirties. He married Wanda Cavender in 1940. Following time spent in the Navy during World War II, he was employed by Plains Chevrolet Company in Amarillo. He moved to Mesa, Arizona, in the late sixties where he was employed until his retirement.