Individual Details

Death

An elderly Statesville woman was killed Friday when she was apparently struck by a vehicle outside of a produce stand on W. Front St. According to a report filed by Officer J.P. Eckman of the Statesville Police Department, Lovie Elizabeth Walker Furr, 74, of 120 S. Meeting St. died at Iredell Memorial Hospital Friday afternoon as a result of the accident. Another woman, Nelle Jackson Poole, 79, of 326 N. Mulberry St., has been charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and failure to stop at the scene of an accident. Officer Eckman indicated that Mrs. Furr was walking in front of Dew Drop Produce on W. Front St. just before noon Friday when she was apparently struck by a 1979 Pontiac, operated by Mrs. Poole. Mrs. Poole, according to Officer Eckman, said she was backing from the parking lot at Dew Drop and was watching for traffic along W. Front St. Mrs. Poole, Officer Eckman indicated, said she felt a bump. She said she then headed west on W. Front St. and looked back in her rear-view mirror and saw groceries lying in the street and guessed the groceries were what she had hit, the report said. Mrs. Poole then returned to her residence and called the Dew Drop and was then informed a pedestrian had been struck. Mrs. Furr was transported to Iredell Memorial Hospital, where she died Friday afternoon. This is the first fatality of the year in the city of Statesville. Mrs. Furr was born on July 13, 1915 in Iredell County, was a daughter of the late James Robert and Maggie Ellen Campbell Walker. She was a retired beautician and a companion to the elderly and was formerly employed with the Children’s Home in Winston-Salem. Three sisters — Mrs. Nannie Fisher, Mrs. Birdie Bush and Mrs. Lula Walker — and two brothers — Spencer Walker and Manuel Howard Walker — preceded her in death. Survivors include one son, Bobby Carrigan of Taylorsville; two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Garner of Pinehurst and Mrs. Dixie Leigh Faulkenberry of Taylorsville; three sisters, Mrs. Ima Holbrook of North Wilkesboro, Mrs. Iona Grant of Statesville and Mrs. Eura Weaver of Olin; her former husband, Wilburn Silas Furr of Charlotte; and two grandchildren. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. today in the Westmoreland Chapel of Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home with Rev. Bill Brendle officiating. Burial will be in Moss Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be Rex Grant, Steve Grant, Don Garner, Brice Campbell, Oliver Campbell and Charles Walker.
Statesville Record and Landmark, Statesville, North Carolina, August 13, 1989