Individual Details

Death

GASTONIA, N. C. — Randy Edward Furr, age 16, of 1603 New Hope Rd. died suddenly at 5 p.m. Saturday, August 12, 1967 in a Charlotte hospital, the result of a train-auto accident near Lowell. He was a rising junior at Ashley High School. Born in Charlotte, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Edward Furr. Surviving are his parents; two sisters, Miss Katrina and Miss Tonya Furr, and brother, Shawn Furr, all of the home, and grandmother, Mrs. B. H. Hefner of Charlotte. The funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Monday from the First Presbyterian Church, officiating Dr. Harry M. Moffett, the minister, assisted by Dr. J. N. Brown, former associate minister. Burial will be in the Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church cemetery in Charlotte where the Rev. Horace Hilton will assist at the graveside service. Active pallbearers will he Randy Chambers, Payton Warren, David Ratchford, Don Rice, Paul Brown, Glenn Wells, Dickie Tate and Doug Lanham, Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Ashley Hill Football, Basketball and Baseball Teams, and members of Christian Fellowship and Christian Athletes of Ashley High. The body will remain at the Carothers Funeral Home in Gastonia until the hour of service.
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina, August 14, 1967

CHARLOTTE (AP) — Randy Furr, 16, of Gastonia, was dead on arrival at Charlotte Memorial Hospital after the car he was driving was struck by a train in Lowell Saturday. Jack Ridley, chief of Lowell police, said Furr was going north on S. Main Street, attempted to follow another car across the railroad tracks, but came to a stop “for no apparent reason.” Witnesses said a Southern Railway train enroute to Charlotte from Gastonia struck the car and dragged it a quarter of a mile down the track.
The Herald-Sun, Durham, North Carolina, August 14, 1967