Individual Details
Ethel James FURR
(24 Apr 1895 - 14 Apr 1988)
Events
| Birth | 24 Apr 1895 | Cabarrus County, NC |  | ||
| Marriage | 18 Apr 1915 | Cabarrus County, NC - Whitson Widenhouse SLOOP | | ||
| Death | 14 Apr 1988 | Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC |  | | |
| Soc Sec No | 237-32-1553 | | |||
| Burial | Sharon Memorial Park, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC | |
Families
| Spouse | Whitson Widenhouse SLOOP (1894 - 1962) |
| Child | Whitson Widenhouse SLOOP Jr. (1916 - 1980) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Clifford Raymond SLOOP (1920 - 2006) |
| Father | James A. FURR (1869 - 1955) |
| Mother | Florence Idella FURR (1872 - 1967) |
| Sibling | Grace Idella FURR (1893 - 1963) |
| Sibling | Keyron Clegg FURR (1901 - 1941) |
| Sibling | Brevard Aaron FURR (1903 - 1973) |
| Sibling | Mary Pearl FURR (1905 - 1997) |
| Sibling | Celbert Rowe "Roe" FURR (1907 - 1932) |
| Sibling | Laura McGee FURR (1911 - 1999) |
Notes
Death
Mrs. Ethel Furr Sloop, 92, of 4009 Craig Ave. died April 14, 1988, at Presbyterian Hospital. Funeral is 2 p.m. Saturday at Harry and Bryant Funeral Home. Burial will be in Sharon Memorial Park. Mrs. Sloop, a Cabarrus County native, had taught school in Kannapolis and was president of Wesley Heights PTA in 1927. She owned and operated beauty salons in Charlotte and Kannapolis in the 1930s. She was a Concord High School graduate and had lived in Charlotte since 1920. She was a charter member of First United Methodist Church, where she was president of her Sunday school class and chairman of her church circle. She also was president of the Charlotte Postal Supervisors Auxiliary and Hawthorne Golden Years Club. Survivors are her son, Raymond Sloop of Chesapeake, Va.; daughter, Mrs. Ruby Liner; sisters, Mrs. Laura Chandler, Mrs. Pearl Sechler, both of Concord; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. Visitation is 7 to 8:30 tonight at Harry and Bryant.The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 15, 1988
Endnotes
1. North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005.
2. North Carolina County Marriages, 1762-1979. Database with images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org.
3. North Carolina Death Indexes, 1908-2004 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
4. United States Social Security Death Index.
5. findagrave.com.