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     Derek James Burness is the son of James Pearson Burness and Catherine Ohren.¹

     David Alexander Burness is the son of Robert Burness and Janette Coull Chalmers Croall.¹

     Lynda Jane Burness is the daughter of Robert Burness and Janette Coull Chalmers Croall.^1,2

     Robert Stephen Burness is the son of Robert Burness and Janette Coull Chalmers Croall.^1,2

     Wallea Noel Starr Schlesinger was born on 25 December 1912 in San Francisco, California, USA.^2,3 She married Thomas Binney Burness, son of Hector Burness and Mary Small Young, in 1932 in Reno, Nevada, USA.^4,5 She and Thomas Binney Burness were divorced circa 1944.³ She married Petrus Draper on 13 December 1949 in Santa Clara County, California, USA.⁶ She died on 3 March 2005 in Salinas, California, USA, at age 92.
     Wallea Schlesinger (step-daughter, age 7) was enumerated in the census on 13 January 1920 in 1112 Ellis Street, San Francisco, California, USA, in the household of Richmond J. Tormey.⁷ Wallea Tormey (daughter, age 17) was enumerated in the census on 5 April 1930 in 170 Borica Street, San Francisco, California, USA, in the household of Richmond J. Tormey.⁸ Wallea Burness (guest, age 27) was enumerated in the census on 9 April 1940 in Piedmont Hotel, Oakland, California, USA, in the household of Thomas Burness.⁹
     Obituary: Wallea Burness Draper, 92, a retired real estate broker who lived in Pacific Grove since 1960, passed away at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital from an aortic aneurism. She was born on Christmas Day in San Francisco to Wallace Starr Schlesinger and Mary Elizabeth Hawthorne, both native Californians. Her father died of pneumonia the same day she was born, so she was called Wallea by request of her grandmother to honor her father. Her birth certificate is Noel Stella Schlesinger. After graduating from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1929, she went to the University of California at Berkeley. She did runway modeling at Ransohofrs and I. Magnin's while in college. When her mother was killed in an automobile accident on Thanksgiving Day in 1932, she helped her stepfather with his dental practice. After marrying Thomas Binney Burness, they moved to Oakland where they started a family. During World War II, she worked in the Richmond Shipyard for two years and then went into real estate in 1944 as a single mother of three sons. She married Petrus Ernest Draper in 1950 and had a daughter and son. She became a real estate broker in 1958 and began Draper Realty, which she brought with her to the Monterey Peninsula in the sixties when she moved to Pacific Grove. She was thought to be the oldest female real estate broker in the state. After raising two families, Wallea began writing and painting in her 70s and enjoyed traveling in her 80s. She will be remembered for her beautiful smile, her generosity, and her love of life. She is survived by her younger sister, Marjorie Petersen of Los Altos, and her children, Tad Burness (Sandy) of Pacific Grove, Tom Burness (Charlotte) of Auburn, Nina Taylor (Jim) of Prunedale, and Peter Draper (Wanda) of Carmel. She was preceded in death by her elder sister, May Martinus of Lockwood and her son Roger Brian Burness who was bitten by a tse tse fly. Mrs. Draper has ten grandchildren and seven great grand children. Wallea was a member of the Catholic Daughters of Saint Angela's Court and requests donations in her memory be made to them at P.O. Box 505, Pacific Grove Ca 93950. Viewing will be at the Paul's Mortuary on Monday, March 7, from 2:004:00 pm, followed by a rosary vigil at 7:00 pm in Saint Angela's Catholic Church. Her funeral mass will be Tuesday, March 8 at 10:00, at St. Angela's, followed by her burial at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma.³

     Deborah Ann Burness is the daughter of Thomas David Burness and Patricia Ann George.^1,2

     Edward Francis Fortune was born on 14 September 1861 in Kilrenny, Fife, Scotland.¹ He married Mary Ann Burness, daughter of John Young Burness and Mary Ann Forbes.^2,3 He died on 31 January 1939 in San Joaquin County, California, USA, at age 77.⁴

     Peter Ferguson was born on 20 March 1861 in Coupar Angus, Angus, Scotland.^2,3 He married Isabella Napier Burness, daughter of Hector Burness and Margaret Forbes, on 6 August 1885 in 11 Blackness Street, Dundee, Angus, Scotland.^2,1 He died on 6 April 1934 in Highgate, Middlesex, England, at age 73.^4,5

     Margaret Macfarlane was born on 25 June 1874 in Dundee, Angus, Scotland.^1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Macfarlane and Mary Burness.^1,2