Individual Details

Death

Services for Mrs. Roy (Lela) Furr, 75, of Lubbock, wife of the late founder of Furr’s Supermarkets, were at 4 p.m. Wednesday in First United Methodist Church in Lubbock. Burial was in Resthaven Memorial Park under direction of Rix Funeral Home. Mrs. Furr died Tuesday in a Lubbock hospital after an illness. A native of Santa Anna, she grew up in Kirkland. She attended Clarendon Junior College and the University of Oklahoma. She married Roy Furr in Kirkland, and they moved to Lubbock in 1929. He was a schoolteacher who built a supermarket empire and then branched into cafeterias, food packaging operations, oil and real estate. He died June 13, 1975. Mrs. Furr was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She and her family donated $75,000 for construction of the Furr Radiation Center at Methodist Hospital in memory of C.W. Furr. Survivors include two sons, Don Furr and Roy Furr Jr., both of Lubbock; a daughter, Mrs. Jack Hall of Lubbock; a brother, Garth Close of Fort Worth; a sister, Mrs. W.G. Thomas of Childress; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
The Odessa American, Odessa, Texas, August 31, 1979