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Attorney and civic leader Charles Furr dead at 49. Local attorney Charles G. Furr died of a heart attack July 4, during a holiday visit with friends in the St. Augustine area. He was 49 years old and just last month had been appointed counsel for the City of Macclenny. Furr, who started a private law practice here in 1973, collapsed at the home of former Glen St. Mary residents Mr. and Mrs. Danny Johnson shortly after returning from a swim at the beach. He was pronounced dead at Flagler Hospital. He was a graduate of Wofford College and held a law degree from Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He served in the Army during the Korean conflict, and was employed on the legal staff of both Southern Railroad and the University of Florida before moving here. The native of Dillon, South Carolina was active in civic affairs here. He was the first president of the Baker County Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, charter member of the Sertoma Club, the Historical Society and Fine Arts Council. He was also a Lions Club past president, and an unsuccessful candidate for County Judge last year. Furr was active in the First Methodist Church in Macclenny, where an overflow crowd attended memorial services Monday afternoon. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. He is survived by his wife Carmean, a teacher at Baker County High School; and three daughters, Nancy, Laurie and Julie; and mother Louise Furr of South Carolina.
The Baker County Press, Thursday, July 9, 1981

Charles G. Furr, 1932-1981
By Jim McGauley
Communities large or small are made up of doers and sitters. Sitters are resigned to the inevitable. Doers realize that where we find ourselves is the product of what we have or have not done to get ourselves there. Doers are generally the optimists. They sense that over a lifetime they can make
things better for themselves and those around them, and that honest attempts to make the difference generally turn out good in the end. Doers over a lifetime develop a singularity of purpose. It becomes obvious to those around them that doers are going to go forward regardless. Those that want to go can go; those that want to stay can stay. This community will miss Charlie Furr.