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Death

Belen – Services for Walter Currie Furr, retired pharmacist, who died early Sunday morning at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Memphis were held Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock at Marks Presbyterian Church with the pastor, the Rev. C. R. Slider and Dr, Ira D. Eavenson, pastor of Marks Baptist Church officiating. Burial was in the Marks Cemetery with Kimbro Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mr. Furr was 67. He was born in Oxford, the son of James Stacy Furr and Mary Ellen Morrison. He was vice-president of the first class in pharmacy of the University of Mississippi from which he graduated in 1910. He has owned and operated the Belen Drug Co. since that year. He was joined by his brother, the late Dr. James Edward Furr in 1914 and together they gained an enviable reputation in scientific medicine. He was a member of the state and national Pharmaceutical Association, a Mason, a life-long member of the Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Quitman County School Board for over 20 years. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic organization, a post he held for over 20 years. He leaves his wife, the former Beatrice Rowe, whom he married in 1913; two sons, Walter Currie Furr Jr., principal of the Belen Consolidated School, and James Stacy Furr II, professor of English at Howard College in Birmingham, Ala.; a granddaughter, Mary Victoria Furr of Birmingham; two sisters, Mrs. Kate Jackson and Mrs. W. W. Kimmons, and a brother, Robert Furr, all of Oxford.