Individual Details

Death

Henry Edmund Gibson, ages 88, died at his home, 401 South Church Street, at 6:15 o’clock Thursday morning. He had been confined to his bed for the past 16 months. A well known retired contractor of this city, Mr. Furr was a member of the South Wilcox Methodist Church, the Odd Fellows Lodge; he was president of the Collin County Building and Loan Association at the time of his death. Funeral services are to be held at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon in the chapel of the Harris Funeral Home with Rev. Robert Ridley of Carrollton and Rev. Gerald P. McCollum, pastor of the First Methodist Church here, officiating. Interment is to be made in Pecan Grove Cemetery with Gibson Caldwell, Henry Warden, Tom Scott, Pat Murphy, Macon Porter, Don Davis, Jim Dowell and Pierce England, acting as pallbearers. Honorary pallbears (sic) are officers of the Building and Loan association. Mr. Furr was born September 28, 1857 in Concord, North Carolina, the son of Paul Monroe and Catherine Louisa Cruse Furr. He had been a resident of this county for the past 72 years and of McKinney for 62 years, He married Fannie Beatrice Williams May 29, 1879. He and Mrs. Furr were the first couple to marry in the First Methodist church here. Survivors include the wife, Mrs. Fannie Beatrice Furr; four children, Lon G. Furr and Mrs. Maggie Houston, both of McKinney, Mrs. Blanche Hatcher of Washington, D. C., who is unable to attend the funeral services because of a recent illness, and Edmund Furr of Los Angeles, California; two brothers, T. M. Furr of Celeste and L. A. Furr of Dallas; one sister, Mrs. Stella McDonald of Dallas; six grand children and five great grandchildren. He was preceeded (sic) in death by his parents, two sisters and one son, James A. Furr.
The Courier-Gazette, McKinney, Texas, July 18, 1946