Individual Details

Marriage

Charles Bruce Furr, of Union county, N. C, and Miss Helen L. Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Murray W. Smith, or 449 Race street, were married at Lewisburg on Wednesday September 24, by the Rev. C. H. Rose, pastor of Christ Lutheran church. The ceremony was quietly performed at the parsonage. An announcement of the happy event was not made until Saturday. Mr. Furr is now employed by the Pennsylvania railroad company here, and will make Sunbury his permanent residence. His bride was graduated from the Sunbury High School two years ago, and for several months past has been employed as a stenographer in the law office of Knight and Taggart. Friends of the young couple are extending heartiest congratulations. (Mr. Furr is a son of Esq. and Mrs. H. M. Furr of Goose Creek township, and is a well-known and highly thought of young man. He was discharged from the navy only a few mouths ago, and it was while in the service that he became acquainted with his bride. They have the best wishes of hundreds of Union county friends of Mr. Furr.

Death

C. Bruce Furr, 66, Selinsgrove RD 1, formerly of Sunbury, well known and highly respected retired Pennsylvania Railroad engineman, died at 8:15 a.m. today in Community hospital, 11 days after suffering a paralytic stroke. Mr. Furr, a veteran of nearly 40 years of service with PRR was a native of Indian Trail, N.C., and had resided in Sunbury since 1919. It was at that time, following his discharge from the U.S. Navy that he and the former Helen M. Smith, of Sunbury, were married. The couple lived for many years in Sunbury, and more recently made their home at Hideaway Farms, Selinsgrove RD 1. Mrs. Furr is a member of the editorial staff of The Daily Item. Charles Bruce Furr was born in Indian Trail, N.C., April 26, 1894, a son of Henry and Laura Hunter Furr, and was one of a family of nine children. Educated, in North Carolina schools, he joined the Navy as a young man in 1912, and re-enlisted when World War I was declared. He served aboard the USS Utah, and was discharged in 1918 with the rank of Chief Petty Officer, following six years of service. On Sept. 2, 1919, shortly after his marriage, he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was first assigned to duties as a warehouseman on the former Williamsport Division, working out of Sunbury, and was transferred to the position of fireman the following year, on Oct. 19, 1920. In 1922, during a temporary furlough from the PRR, Mr. Furr took a position with the Seaboard Airline Railroad in Raleigh, N.C., working there until his recall by the PRR in 1923. He and his family returned to Sunbury and Mr. Furr was re-assigned to the former Williamsport Division. In 1934 he was sent to New York state to assist with the road’s electrification project there for several months with the rating of fireman, a position he held until July 28, 1941, when he was promoted to engineman. Since his retirement on July 14, 1958, Mr. Furr had been devoting his time to the management of Hideaway Farm, where he had developed an extensive truck patch. He was popular with his railroad associates and held in high regard in the community. He had been in apparent good health before being stricken ill Feb. 3. Taken ill at about 11 a.m. he lay unaided until about 6 p.m. when neighbors were able to make their way through a heavy snow storm to the farm house at the request of Mrs. Furr, who had been unable to contact her husband from Sunbury. He was rushed to Community Hospital, where he remained on the critical list until his death today. Mr. Furr was a member of American Legion Post 201. In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Suzanne Ressler and Mrs. Jeanne Teisher, both of Granada Hills, Calif.; five grandchildren, Jackie Sue, Kathy and Bobby Teisher, and Carole Jean and Charles Bruce Ressler; seven brothers and sisters, Fulton Furr and Mrs. Jessie Hartzel Indian Trail, N.C.; Sloan Furr and Mrs. Wendell Sams, Atlanta, Ga.; Lewis Furr and Mrs. Charles Freeman, Charlotte, N.C., and H. R. Furr, 348 Vine Street, Sunbury. Services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. from Dornsife funeral home, city, in charge of Rev. Charles B. Almond, pastor of First Presbyterian Church. Interment will be in Northumberland Memorial Cemetery, Stonington. Friends will be received at the funeral home Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m.
The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1961