Individual Details
Oliver Bowman FURR
(6 Dec 1881 - 21 Aug 1951)
Events
| Birth | 6 Dec 1881 | Union County, NC |  | ||
| Occupation | 1930 - 1940 | foundry pattern maker - Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC | |||
| Death | 21 Aug 1951 | Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC |  | | |
| Marriage | Willie Mae HARGETT | ||||
| Marriage | Nancy "Nannie" GRIFFITH | ||||
| Burial | Forest Lawn West Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC | |
Families
| Spouse | Nancy "Nannie" GRIFFITH (1890 - 1982) |
| Child | Athena FURR (1911 - 1993) |
| Child | Oliver Bowman FURR Jr. (1923 - 1949) |
| Spouse | Willie Mae HARGETT (1882 - 1909) |
| Child | Mildred Claxton FURR (1901 - ) |
| Child | Earl Bowman FURR (1903 - 1969) |
| Child | Gertrude Alice FURR (1906 - 1935) |
| Father | John A. FURR (1851 - 1915) |
| Mother | Living |
| Sibling | Emma Virginia "Jennie" FURR (1878 - 1936) |
| Sibling | Daniel Franklin FURR (1886 - 1951) |
Notes
Death
O. B. Furr, 69, died last night at 8:10 o'clock at his home at 320 Lakewood avenue after an illness of 17 weeks. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock at McEwen chapel on East Morehead street. Rev. A. V. Rippy of Oak Grove Baptist church and Rev. M. G. Chapman of Westside Baptist church will officiate. Burial will be in Forest Lawn cemetery. The body will remain at McEwen Funeral home until the hour of the service. Mr. Furr was born December 6, 1881, in Union county, the son of the late John A. and Alice Wentz Furr. He was a pattern maker with Queen City Foundry. Surviving Mr. Furr are his wife, Mrs. Nannie Griffith Furr; a daughter, Mrs. W. L. Campbell of Laurel, Md.; a stepdaughter, Miss Athenia Helms of Charlotte; a son, Earl Furr of Charlotte; a brother, D. F. Furr of Charlotte; and several grandchildren.The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, North Carolina, August 22, 1951
Endnotes
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2. North Carolina Death Indexes, 1908-2004 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
3. North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007. Original data: North Carolina State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina..
4. findagrave.com.