Individual Details
Willie Skelton FURR
(29 Apr 1907 - 30 Nov 1990)
Started Furr's Lumber in Mineral Wells, Texas.
Events
| Birth | 29 Apr 1907 | Fort Smith, Sebastian County, AR | |||
| Marriage | 30 Jul 1924 | Fort Smith, Sebastian County, AR - Anna "Annie" SANDERS |  | ||
| Occupation | 1930 | commerical trader, boxes - Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, TX | |||
| Occupation | 1940 | planing mill machine operator - Tarrant County, TX | |||
| Occupation | 1950 | carpenter - Oroville, Butte County, CA | |||
| Death | 30 Nov 1990 | Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, TX |  | | |
| Military | in World War I | ||||
| Soc Sec No | 467-09-4413 | | | ||
| Burial | Woodland Park Cemetery, Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto County, TX | |
Families
| Spouse | Anna "Annie" SANDERS (1907 - 1990) |
| Child | Billy Jo FURR (1926 - 1992) |
| Child | Paul Kenneth FURR (1931 - 2006) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Charles Vernon FURR (1938 - 2002) |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Edward Clarence "Ed" FURR (1884 - 1972) |
| Mother | Sydney Anna WOOD (1886 - 1966) |
| Sibling | James Edward FURR (1911 - 1974) |
| Sibling | Claude Paul FURR (1916 - 1968) |
| Sibling | Clarence Purshal FURR (1918 - 1993) |
| Sibling | Dorsey Lee FURR (1926 - 2016) |
Notes
Death
MINERAL WELLS — Funeral for Willie Skelton Furr, 75, of Mineral Wells, will be at 10 a.m. Sunday at Baum-Carlock-Bumgardner Funeral Chapel with burial in Woodland Park Cemetery in Mineral Wells. He died Saturday in a Mineral Wells hospital. Furr was born in Fort Smith, Ark., and moved to Texas in 1928. He had lived in Mineral Wells since 1966. He was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He was a carpenter and had a planing mill.Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas, February 13, 1983
Soc Sec No
Birth Date: 14 Feb 1907Death Date: Feb 1983
Endnotes
1. "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N93R-VBQ : 9 March 2021)Arkansas County Marriages Index, 1837-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
2. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas.
3. United States Social Security Death Index.
4. findagrave.com.