Individual Details
Floyd Dexter FURR
(19 Apr 1900 - 22 Jan 1959)
Events
| Birth | 19 Apr 1900 | Caesar, Pearl River County, MS |  | ||
| Marriage | 28 Mar 1925 | Pearl River County, MS - Julia Ava SMITH | |||
| Occupation | 1930 | newspaper printer - Pearl River County, MS | |||
| Occupation | 1950 | newspaper ad man - New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA | |||
| Death | 22 Jan 1959 | Picayune, Pearl River County, MS |  | ||
| Burial | New Palestine Cemetery, Picayune, Pearl River County, MS | |
Families
| Spouse | Julia Ava SMITH (1904 - 1996) |
| Child | Gertrude Mynone "Trudy" FURR (1927 - 1971) |
| Child | Floyd Henderson FURR (1929 - 2017) |
| Father | James Henderson FURR (1857 - 1935) |
| Mother | Ella A. FARMER (1868 - 1903) |
| Sibling | FURR (1885 - 1885) |
| Sibling | Lula C. FURR (1886 - ) |
| Sibling | James Troy FURR (1887 - 1908) |
| Sibling | Jesse Ryals FURR (1888 - 1959) |
| Sibling | William Franklin "Willie" FURR (1890 - 1953) |
| Sibling | Mary Edna FURR (1892 - 1951) |
| Sibling | Hollis Rowan FURR (1895 - 1927) |
| Sibling | FURR (1903 - 1903) |
Notes
Death
Floyd D. Furr, 58 year-old-printer who has worked for news papers in Picayune, New Orleans and Houston, Texas, died at 5:20 a. m, Wednesday in Crosby Memorial Hospital in Picayune after being a patient there for about a week. Funeral services were conducted from the New Palestine Baptist Church at 2:30 p. m. today. Burial was in the Palestine cemetery. The Rev. Hoyte Nelson officiated. McDonald Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mr. Furr had worked on the Picayune-Item at Picayune, the Times-Picayune in New Orleans and for a printing firm in Houston, Texas. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ava Smith Furr; two children, Mrs. William F. Rellstab of New Orleans and Floyd H. Fur of Conroe, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. Lula Kennedy of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Lilla White of Brookhaven; and five brothers, Rev. A. C. Furr of Columbus, Clifton Furr and Ernest Furr of Picayune, James Furr of Pascagoula, and Jess R. Furr of Hattiesburg.The Weekly Democrat, Poplarville, Mississippi, January 29, 1959
Endnotes
1. "Mississippi, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPKR-NDD1 : Sat Mar 09 02:51:58 UTC 2024).
2. , findagrave.com (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).