Individual Details
Nellie Anna FURR
(23 Jan 1933 - 21 Apr 2023)
Events
Families
Spouse | John Wesley KIMES (1929 - 2014) |
Child | Living |
Father | Edward Garland FURR (1908 - 1990) |
Mother | Birtie Ethel Agnes BURKHART (1913 - 1992) |
Sibling | Rev. Harmon Nathaniel "Johnny" FURR (1930 - 2012) |
Sibling | Donald Wayne FURR (1935 - 1982) |
Sibling | Frederick Edward "Freddie" FURR (1946 - 1969) |
Notes
Death
Nellie Anna Furr, 90 of Corpus Christi, TX. passed away on Friday, April 21, 2023. Nellie was born to the late Edward Garland and Bertie Ethel (Burkhart) Furr on January 23, 1933 in Dyer, AR. Nellie worked at Continental Disc Corporation in Kansas City, MO for 30 years before retiring and moving to be close to family. She was passionate about interior design and showed her creativity in her many landscape paintings. Nellie is preceded in death by her parents Edward and Bertie Furr, and brothers Donald Wayne Furr, Frederick Edward Furr and Harmon Nathaniel Furr. She is survived by her daughter Pamela Shipman, granddaughter Medea Helsel, great granddaughter Lily Lamb and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Nellie was greatly loved and will be greatly missed. Graveside service for Nellie will be Friday, April 28, 2023 at 10 am in Forest Park Cemetery, Fort Smith, AR.Endnotes
1. "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N93R-VBQ : 9 March 2021)Arkansas County Marriages Index, 1837-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
2. Edwards Funeral Home, Fort Smith Arkansas.
3. findagrave.com.