Individual Details

Edith Rae FURR

(22 Jun 1914 - 21 Oct 2000)

Events

Birth22 Jun 1914Lincoln County, MS
Marriage28 Mar 1931Walthall County, MS - James Oliver WHITE
Death21 Oct 2000Wesson, Copiah County, MS
BurialLittle Bahala Baptist Church Cemetery, Brookhaven, Lincoln County, MS
Soc Sec No428-22-9911

Families

SpouseJames Oliver WHITE (1905 - 1982)
ChildGary L. WHITE (1940 - 2009)
FatherMack Christian "Mac" FURR (1889 - 1950)
MotherVallie Mae MORGAN (1893 - 1994)
SiblingRandolph Percy FURR (1912 - 1965)
SiblingEsther Lee FURR (1916 - 2013)
SiblingMaxine FURR (1921 - 2007)
SiblingMeryle Vesta FURR (1924 - 2001)
SiblingRobert Hugh FURR (1926 - 1992)
SiblingJames Hilton FURR (1928 - 2013)

Notes

Death

Edith Rae Furr White

Services for Edith Rae Furr White of Wesson are 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 23, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Little Bahala Cemetery.

Visitation is Sunday, Oct. 22, from 6-9 p.m. and Monday, Oct. 23, from 8 a.m. until service time at the funeral home.

Mrs. White, 86, died Saturday, Oct. 21, 2000, at Country Brook Living Center. She was born in Lincoln County on June 22, 1914, to the late Mack C. and Vallie Mae Morgan Furr.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Little Bahala Baptist Church.



Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, James Oliver White; brothers, Percy Furr and Hugh Furr; and a grandson, Patrick Raymond White.

Survivors are her sons, James Alton White of Sacramento, Calif., and Gary L. White of Wesson; brother, Hilton Furr of Wesson; sisters, Meryle Terwilliger of Greenwood, Maxine Kelley of Hernando and Esther Farmer of Wesson; two grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
The Daily Leader, Brookhaven, Mississippi, October 23, 2000

Endnotes

1. Hunting For Bears, comp. Mississippi Marriages, 1776-1935 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: Mississippi marriage information taken from county courthouse records..

2. findagrave.com.