Individual Details
Grover Carr FURR
(1 Jun 1893 - 25 May 1987)
Events
| Birth | 1 Jun 1893 | Stanly County, NC |  | ||
| Marriage | 11 Dec 1911 | Stanly County, NC - Beulah Mae LITTLE | | ||
| Occupation | 1930 - 1940 | hosery mill superintendent - High Point, Guilford County, NC | |||
| Marriage | 21 Oct 1949 | Guilford County, NC - Mary Harden SCOTT | | ||
| Occupation | 1950 | textile mill head of hosery division - Greensboro, Guilford County, NC | |||
| Death | 25 May 1987 | Burlington, Alamance County, NC |  | | |
| Soc Sec No | 240-03-5802 | | |||
| Burial | Guilford Memorial Park, Greensboro, Guilford County, NC | |
Families
| Spouse | Beulah Mae LITTLE (1890 - 1947) |
| Child | Woodrow Craig FURR (1913 - 1992) |
| Child | Shirley Gaynell FURR (1914 - 1962) |
| Child | James William FURR (1916 - 2007) |
| Child | Grover Carr FURR Jr. (1920 - 2011) |
| Spouse | Mary Harden SCOTT (1911 - 2003) |
| Father | William Eban "Josh" FURR (1832 - 1913) |
| Mother | Delila Elizabeth DUNN (1849 - 1931) |
| Sibling | John Madison FURR (1872 - 1956) |
| Sibling | Robert M. FURR (1875 - 1890) |
| Sibling | Beneeta Arabell FURR (1878 - 1949) |
| Sibling | Emma Lorena FURR (1880 - 1927) |
| Sibling | Minerva Jane "Minnie" FURR (1883 - 1963) |
| Sibling | Ida Mehalia FURR (1885 - 1979) |
| Sibling | Nancy Elmetta FURR (1887 - 1965) |
| Sibling | Mary Lee FURR (1889 - 1978) |
Notes
Death
Grover Carr Furr Sr. of 1010 Sunset Drive, a retired Burlington Industries vice president, died Monday in Central Piedmont Nursing Home in Burlington. Graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Guilford Memorial Park. Furr was a Stanly County native and attended Palmerville Institute for Boys in Stanly County. He was the founder and owner of Lee Hosiery Mill in South Carolina. Burlington Industries named one of its mills the Grover Furr Mill in his honor. Furr had been a director of the Southern Hosiery Manufacturing Association and had been a board member of the Guilford County Heart Association. He was a Mason, member of the Greensboro Country Club, Sedgefield Country Club, and West Market Street United Methodist Church, where for several years he served on the board of trustees. Survivors are wife, Mrs. Mary Seott Furr; sons, Grover Furr of Hollywood, Fla., James Furr and Craig Furr of Spring Hill, Fla.; seven grandchildren. The family will be at the residence 7-8:30 p.m. today. Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity. Hanes-Lineberry North Elm Street Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.News and Record, Greensboro, North Carolina, May 26, 1987
Endnotes
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2. North Carolina County Marriages, 1762-1979. Database with images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org.
3. North Carolina County Marriages, 1762-1979. Database with images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org.
4. North Carolina Death Indexes, 1908-2004 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
5. United States Social Security Death Index.
6. , findagrave.com (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).