2024 Georgia General Elections

2024 Georgia General Election Runoff

The True Citizen: Prescott named county coroner

Valchester attended Gupton Jones School of Mortuary Science.

Valchester worked as a general manager of Fox and Weeks Funeral Services for 20 years. He became a partner of the Joiner-Anderson-Saxner-Prescott Funeral Home and Crematory in 2011.

Valchester Argyle Prescott is the coroner in Burke County. He was appointed in 2018 and is serving his second term.

Pledged to contact prospective deputy coroners and ensured proper training.

- Pledged to contact prospective deputy coroners and ensured proper training.

Public Health

As of July 25, 2024, Valchester Argyle Prescott did not have a website or any information online.

Public Safety

Valchester Argyle Prescott

Prescott attended Gupton Jones School of Mortuary Science.

Prescott worked as a general manager of Fox and Weeks Funeral Services for 20 years. He became a partner in Joiner-Anderson-Saxner-Prescott Funeral Home and Crematory in 2011.

Valchester Argyle Prescott was appointed coroner following his predecessor's resignation in 2018.

As of July 25, 2024, Valchester Argyle Prescott did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for determining the cause, manner, and circumstance of death under the Georgia Death Investigation Act.  
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include violent deaths, suicides, sudden deaths, deaths unattended by a physician, suspicious deaths, deaths of children younger than seven years old, executions, deaths of inmates, and deaths of people admitted to a hospital unconscious. 
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- All Georgia Coroners are required to attend a 40 hour course at the Georgia State Patrol Training Center and receive 24 hours of in services training on death investigation procedures each year. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 

The chief medical examiner for the county

Burke Coroner

Election results

Candidates (1)