Individual Details
Billy Joe FURR
(20 Aug 1935 - 9 Jun 1987)
Students avoid strangers and don’t hitchhike. But when it comes to climbing into the back seat of a stranger's taxi, most never think twice. Students may reconsider, however, after the recent arrest of one Athens cab driver. Five Stars Taxi Cab driver Billy Joe Furr, 54, was charged with open container, driving on a suspended license and failure to display a valid taxi permit at 2:37 a.m. Monday. A passenger was in Furr’s cab at the time of his arrest, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police report. State Patrol Officers also arrested Furr on charges of involvement in a hit-and-run, the report states. Officers approached Furr after his taxi, which matched the description of a vehicle involved in an earlier hit-and-run, pulled into a parking lot on Oglethorpe Avenue. Furr was never able to produce a driver’s license and a check revealed it had been suspended for failure to appear, according to the report. A State Patrol officer then tried to locate Furr’s permit to operate a taxi, but found none. However, he did find a bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade “at the base of the driver’s seat,” according to the report. Furr was transported to Clarke County Jail.
The Red and Black, Athens, Georgia, November 16, 2010
The Red and Black, Athens, Georgia, November 16, 2010
Events
| Birth | 20 Aug 1935 | Georgia | |||
| Death | 9 Jun 1987 | Douglas County, GA |  |  | |
| Marriage | Peggy Jo DANIELL | ||||
| Soc Sec No | 252-46-4124 | | |||
| Burial | Mozley Memorial Gardens, Lithia Springs, Douglas County, GA | |
Families
| Spouse | Peggy Jo DANIELL (1937 - 2021) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Clyde James FURR (1908 - 1948) |
| Mother | Mary Elizabeth TOLBERT (1910 - 1954) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | Mary Nell FURR (1933 - ) |
| Sibling | Betty Jane FURR (1940 - 2024) |
| Sibling | Living |
| Sibling | James Larry FURR (1948 - 2014) |
Notes
Death
Mr. Bill Joe Fur, age 51, of Tora Circle, died June 9, 1987. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Peggy Furr, sons, Thomas Furr, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Furr, daughter, Brenda Furr, brothers, Wendell and Larry Furr, all of Douglasvill; sisters, Mrs. Jean Patton, Mrs. Mary Nell Pilgrim, Mrs. Betty Shadrix. Funeral services will be held Thursday, 11 am. from Whiley Garner Chapel. Rev. Marion Beaver, Rev. Sandford Willard, and Rev. Ralgh Tappley officating. Interment, Morley Memorial Gardens. Whitley-Garner Funeral Home, Douglasville.Endnotes
1. Georgia Deaths, 1919-98. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: State of Georgia. Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-98. Georgia: Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, 1998..
2. United States Social Security Death Index.
3. , findagrave.com (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).