The services for former Hollister police Sgt. Andy Burgess are set for 2:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Masonic Hall, 380 W. Dunn Ave., in Morgan Hill, according to the Hollister Police Department.
According to the announcement, a celebration of life reception will follow immediately after the funeral. The family asks that in lieu of flowers people make a donation to Operation Freedom Paws or the HPD.
Burgess, the former Hollister police officer from Gilroy, was injured in a January traffic accident and died Aug. 11. He was 59 years old.
An Army veteran and former sergeant with the Hollister Police Department, Burgess had been in critical but stable condition weeks after the accident involving a motorcycle driven by Burgess and a car driven by a 22-year-old Gilroy resident, Dulce Hernandez-Aguilar.
The crash Jan. 6 occurred in front of Kachy Produce, located at 8655 Monterey Road just north of Leavesley Avenue.
Santa Clara County Emergency medical personnel, Gilroy firefighters and police responded to the incident after Hernandez-Aguilar pulled out of the grocery mart’s parking lot and collided with Burgess, who was southbound on Monterey Road at a high speed, according to police. Burgess was airlifted by a medical helicopter to a Bay Area trauma center. The car driver was uninjured in the incident.
Doctors initially put Burgess in a medically induced coma to help with brain swelling resulting from major trauma.
