Individual Details
Dorothy Grace "Dottie" TURNER
(8 Mar 1921 - 14 Apr 1985)
Subject: Dottie Turner Furr
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:29:07 -0500
From: Bill Allen <allen@nconnect.net>
To: FurrS <safurr@comcast.net>
Stan,
I recently finished reading a book I picked up at the library, Safely Rest, concerning the handling of the bodies of soldiers killed in WWII.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425198359/qid=1129508261/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-4193265-3189555?v=glance&s=books&n=507846>;
A major portion of the book concerns the search for the remains of Jesse D. "Red" Franks who was from Columbus MS, & was killed in a bombing raid in 1943. His fiancee was Dorothy "Dottie" Turner.
Near the end of the book, I learned that "Dottie" Turner married Richard H. "Dick" Furr after the war was over. It appears from my google research that this Dick Furr was a 1st cousin of your Dad.
Thought you might be interested.
Bill
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:29:07 -0500
From: Bill Allen <allen@nconnect.net>
To: FurrS <safurr@comcast.net>
Stan,
I recently finished reading a book I picked up at the library, Safely Rest, concerning the handling of the bodies of soldiers killed in WWII.
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0425198359/qid=1129508261/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-4193265-3189555?v=glance&s=books&n=507846>;
A major portion of the book concerns the search for the remains of Jesse D. "Red" Franks who was from Columbus MS, & was killed in a bombing raid in 1943. His fiancee was Dorothy "Dottie" Turner.
Near the end of the book, I learned that "Dottie" Turner married Richard H. "Dick" Furr after the war was over. It appears from my google research that this Dick Furr was a 1st cousin of your Dad.
Thought you might be interested.
Bill
Events
| Birth | 8 Mar 1921 | Philadelphia, Neshoba County, MS | |||
| Marriage | 30 Jun 1945 | Neshoba County, MS - Richard Herman "Dick" FURR |  | ||
| Death | 14 Apr 1985 | Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Hamilton County, MS |  | | |
| Soc Sec No | 427-22-0124 | | |||
| Burial | Pontotoc City Cemetery, Pontotoc, Pontotoc County, MS | |
Families
| Spouse | Richard Herman "Dick" FURR (1920 - 2002) |
| Child | Richard Turner "Dick" FURR (1947 - 1978) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | James Bradshaw TURNER (1877 - 1935) |
| Mother | Lila L. SADLER (1891 - 1958) |
Notes
Death
PONTOTOC — Mrs. Dottie Turner Furr, 64, wife of Lt. Col. Richard Furr (USAF, ret.), died Sunday at Keesler Air Force Base Hospital in Biloxi after a long illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Browning Funeral Home with burial in Pontotoc City Cemetery. She also leaves a daughter, Miss Dawn Furr of Palm Beach, Fla.; a son, Robert B. Furr of Kill Devil Hills, N.C., and a grandchild.The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, April 17, 1985
Endnotes
1. Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979. Database. FamilySearch. https://FamilySearch.org : 26 November 2020.
2. The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee.
3. United States Social Security Death Index.
4. , findagrave.com (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).