Individual Details
Sidney Thomas FURR
(13 Mar 1932 - 27 Feb 2000)
“I've been shot at twice — and last night they got me,” said Patrolman Sidney T. Furr from his Baptist Hospital bed. “We knew the gunmen were in the motel, Crescent Lake Motel at 5110 Summer. I knocked on the door. It was about 8:30. “Officers stood against the wall on either side of me, out of sight. “A woman opened the door and I said, ‘Is your husband here?” “She stepped back and he was standing there, with a .32 aimed at me. ‘Come inside,’ he said so soft that the two officers, flanking me couldn't hear him. He stood back in the room a few steps. “He said, ‘You heard what I told you. Come in here.’ “I was trying to figure out how to tell the officers he had a gun on me. Then I lunged to the right, grabbing across my body for the pistol on my left hip. (Furr is right-handed. He likes a cross-draw from the left hip.) “It felt like a sledge hammer hit my left arm, with a big electric shock. I knew I was hit." A pop bottle sat on the in widow sill of the hospital room. “I started to drink that last night when they gave me a knockout pill,” said Furr, smiling. “I went out before I could finish drinking it.” The gunman's bullet entered Furr's left arm, below the elbow, and came out just above the wrist. “It was superficial,” said Furr. “I'm lucky.”
The Memphis Press-Scimitar, Memphis, Tennessee, February 10, 1961
The Memphis Press-Scimitar, Memphis, Tennessee, February 10, 1961
Events
| Birth | 13 Mar 1932 | Memphis, Shelby County, TN |  | ||
| Occupation | 1950 | grocery stock boy - Memphis, Shelby County, TN | |||
| Marriage | 20 Oct 1956 | Hernando, Desoto County, MS - Glenn Ruth ROWLAND | | ||
| Divorce | 1968 | Glenn Ruth ROWLAND | |||
| Marriage | 14 Feb 1974 | Desoto County, MS - Sylvia Joyce CARLISLE | |||
| Marriage | 1983 | Nell Mae "Nelly" HAVEN | |||
| Death | 27 Feb 2000 | Southaven, DeSoto County, MS |  | | |
| Divorce | Sylvia Joyce CARLISLE | ||||
| Soc Sec No | 408-42-7030 | | |||
| Burial | Memphis Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens, Bartlett, Shelby County, TN | |
Families
| Spouse | Glenn Ruth ROWLAND (1936 - 2003) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | John Purnell FURR (1962 - 2022) |
| Spouse | Sylvia Joyce CARLISLE (1938 - 1989) |
| Spouse | Nell Mae "Nelly" HAVEN (1943 - 2020) |
| Father | Isaac Purnell FURR (1905 - 1987) |
| Mother | Lelia Catherine PERKINS (1911 - 1996) |
| Sibling | Francis Emily Carter FURR (1937 - 1939) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | George Morgan FURR (1944 - 1982) |
Notes
Death
Sidney Thomas Furr, 67, of Southaven, Memphis police officer and former insurance claims manager, died Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto in Southaven after a heart attack. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Memphis Funeral Home Germantown Parkway Chapel with burial in Memory Hill Gardens. He was a member of Carriage Hills Baptist Church in Southaven and a partner in the Bellevue Medical Clinic. Mr. Furr, the husband of Nell Haven Furr, also leaves a daughter, Denise Furr Amspaugh, and two sons, Sidney Kevin Furr and John Purnell Furr, all of Vermilion, Ohio; two stepsons, Greg Carlisle of Lexington, Ky., and Kevin Carlisle of Horn Lake; a brother, Richard P. Furr of North Little Rock, and six grandchildren.The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, February 29, 2000
Endnotes
1. United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007, database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KSP-S62F : 10 February 2023).
2. The Memphis Press-Scimitar, Memphis, Tennessee.
3. The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, February 29, 2000.
4. United States Social Security Death Index.
5. findagrave.com.