A memorial service for Frank Burgess will be Saturday, April 10, in Tacoma. Burgess, Gonzaga's all-time leading scorer, died last week at the age of 75.

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A memorial service for former Gonzaga University basketball standout and U.S. District Judge Frank Burgess will be held Saturday, April 10.

The 10 a.m. service will be held at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 7112 S. 12th St., in Tacoma. The service will be followed by a 12:30 p.m. reception at the student center at Bellarmine Preparatory School, 2300 S. Washington St., in Tacoma.

Burgess passed away March 26 at the age of 75 after a bout with cancer.

He took the oath of office as a U.S. district judge in 1994, becoming the second black man appointed to the federal bench in Western Washington.

The high-scoring Burgess, who led the NCAA Division I basketball ranks in scoring in 1961 at 32.4 ppg, was one of eight former players and coaches inducted into the inaugural West Coast Conference Hall of Honor Class a year ago at the WCC Tournament in Las Vegas.

The native of Eudora, Ark., came to Gonzaga right out of the Air Force in 1958. The 6-1 sharpshooter led the Bulldogs in scoring for three seasons and won the national collegiate scoring crown for the 1960-61 season with 842 points in 26 games and a 32.4 scoring average. Burgess scored what is today still a school-best 2,196 points in his three years at Gonzaga (he spent a pre-military year at Arkansas AM&N) and scored more than 40 points in a game seven times including a school-record 52 against California-Davis his senior year.

He was a Helms Foundation All-American selection in his junior and senior year and was an All-American choice by the major wire services in his senior year. After two seasons with Hawaii in the professional American Basketball League, he returned to Gonzaga to attend law school and graduated near the top of his class. He was inducted into the Inland Empire Sports Hall of Fame in 1985. Gonzaga University retired his No. 44 jersey Feb. 19, 2005, and today it hangs in the McCarthey Athletic Center rafters.

Burgess graduated from Gonzaga University Law School. He worked for the City of Tacoma as a prosecutor and later entered into a private law practice partnership. In 1981, the federal district judges for the Western District of Washington appointed Frank Burgess as a magistrate judge, a position he held for twelve years until 1994 when he was appointed a full federal judge by President Clinton upon his nomination by Senator Patty Murray. A federal judgeship is a lifetime appointment. Judge Burgess is one of seventeen federal district judges serving in the state of Washington.