Individual Details

Death

Funeral services for Mary Jane Jenkins Furr, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m. on Monday, March 28, at Apostolic Lighthouse Church in Lincoln County with burial in Stewart Cemetery in Bogue Chitto. Community Funeral Services is in charge of arrangements. Visitation is Sunday beginning at 5 p.m. at the church. Mrs. Furr, 68, died March 26, 2011, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. She was born in Sicily Island, La., on Feb. 15, 1943, to Everett and Maybelle Jackson. She was a seamstress and child caregiver. She was a member of Apostolic Lighthouse Church. Preceding her in death was her husband of 27 years and the father of her boys, Leroy Jenkins; her husband, Willie Moore; three stepsons; one stepdaughter; one adopted son; two brothers; two sisters; two stepbrothers and one stepsister. Survivors are her husband, Eddie Clinton Furr; her sons, Robert (Bobby) Jenkins and wife, Patricia, and Allen Jenkins and wife, Karen; her grandchildren, Kayla Jenkins and Christopher Smith; her stepdaughters, Martha Smith, Sharon Jackson, Alice Jordan, Bonnie Varnado, Connie Grenn and Penny Moore; her stepsons, Billy Wayne Moore, Willie Earl Moore and Andy Moore; her adopted sons, Glenn Rippy, Donnie Rippy and Billy Ray Rippy; her adopted daughter, Shirley Kendall; her brothers, Edgar Jackson, Edward Jackson, Henry Jackson and Clifton Jackson; her sister, Dorothy Wilkinson; her stepbrothers, Sylvester Buitt, Marvin Buitt, Robert Buitt and Charlie Bill Buitt; her stepsisters, Ann Caves, Nita Lusk, Martha Sandford and Emma Jean Smith; many stepgrandchildren, adopted grandchildren, step-great-grandchildren, and adopted step-great-grandchildren; and her special niece and friend, Peggy Moore. Her heart was big enough for them all.
The Daily Leader, Brookhaven, Mississippi, March 27, 2011