Individual Details
Clyde Thigpen FURR
(7 Mar 1900 - 23 Dec 1969)
Events
| Birth | 7 Mar 1900 | Lincoln County, MS |  | ||
| Occupation | 1930 | electrical manufacturing foreman - Essex County, MA | |||
| Marriage | 16 Oct 1934 | Lincoln County, MS - Dorothy Eva "Dot" DUNCAN | | ||
| Occupation | 1950 | postmaster - Wesson, Copiah County, MS | |||
| Death | 23 Dec 1969 | Hazlehurst, Copiah County, MS |  | | |
| Burial | Clear Branch Baptist Church Cemetery, Brookhaven, Lincoln County, MS | | |||
| Soc Sec No | 034-01-7379 | |
Families
| Spouse | Dorothy Eva "Dot" DUNCAN (1907 - 2000) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Randall Elias "RE" FURR (1860 - 1925) |
| Mother | Louella WYLIE (1866 - 1940) |
| Sibling | Annie FURR (1894 - 1982) |
| Sibling | William Prentiss FURR (1895 - 1949) |
| Sibling | Frederick Lamar "Fred" FURR (1898 - 1939) |
| Sibling | Addie Nell FURR (1902 - 1979) |
| Sibling | Leta FURR (1905 - 1916) |
Notes
Death
Funeral services for Clyde T. Furr, 69, resident of Wesson, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday from Wright and Ferguson chapel, with the Rev. Eli B. Landrum, of Wesson, officiating. Interment will follow in Lakewood Memorial Park. Furr died Sunday afternoon in Hardy Wilson Memorial Hospital in Hazlehurst, following an extended illness. He was born and reared in Wesson. For a number of years he was employed by General Electric Company in Lynn, Mass., returning to Wesson to make his home in 1940. Since 1960 he had served as town clerk. He was a graduate of Georgia Tech, with a degree in mechancial (sic) engineering; was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Survivors are his wife, the former Dorothy Eva Duncan of Swampschott, Mass.; two daughters, Mrs. Newton (Deddy) Ford of Jackson and Mrs. Howard (Nancy) Bonham of Dallas, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Annie Drane and Mrs. Addie Nell Crawford, both of Wesson; and five grandchildren.Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, December 23, 1969
Endnotes
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2. Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979. Database. FamilySearch. https://FamilySearch.org : 26 November 2020.
3. United States Social Security Death Index.
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5. United States Social Security Death Index.