Summerton native to direct national cemetery in Michigan
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE DILLON HERALDTurbeville celebrates after winning the Dixie Angels State Championships in Dillon several weeks ago. The team won its first game in the World Series on Monday against Texas, and faces Georgia at 11 a.m. today.
A Scott’s Branch High School alumnus is now the director of a national cemetery.
Alphaeus L. Richburg was named recently to the post of director for Fort Custer National Cemetery in Augusta, Michigan, making him responsible for all burial, maintenance and administration operations at the facility.
A son of Alphaeus “Shorty” Richburg and Lillian “Sister” Ragin-Richburg of Summerton, Richburg joined the National Cemetery Administration in January 2009 as a cemetery representative at Beaufort National Cemetery in Beaufort. He completed the NCA’s one-year cemetery director intern program in two-and-a-half years later.
