Elmer T. Burgan
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Elmer T. Burgan, 81, an engineer who worked at the Navy's David Taylor Model Basin for 33 years, died July 14 at Washington Hospital Center of congestive heart failure after cancer surgery.
Mr. Burgan, a native Washingtonian, graduated from  St. John College High School. He served in the Army Air Forces during World War II and was stationed in the United States. He returned to his home town after the war and graduated from Catholic University.
He went to work for the Navy Department at the Surface Warfare Center at Carderock in 1950 and retired in 1981. He had lived in Silver Spring since 1948.
Mr. Burgan was a member of the Knights of Columbus in Silver Spring and was a founding member and usher at St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Silver Spring.
Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Louise E. Michalek Burgan of Silver Spring; seven children, Anne Pate of Fredericksburg, Elizabeth Lake of Richmond, Thomas Burgan of Charlottesville, Eric Burgan of Silver Spring, Peter Burgan of Silver Spring, Paul Burgan of Atlanta and James Burgan of Magnolia, N.C.; two sisters, Sister Regina Burgan and Sister Maria Burgan, both of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Baltimore; a brother, Wilfred Burgan of Leonardtown; and seven grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan