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Death

Frank Girault Furr, 66 of McCall’s Creek dies. The funeral of Frank Girault Furr, 66, of McCall’s Creek, formerly of Lincoln County, took place with impressive rites, Monday afternoon at the Little Bahala Baptist Church. Interment was made in the Little Bahala cemetery. Beautiful floral tributes marked the tomb. Walter Guess, Stewart Day, Julius Naul, Ray Day, Cliff Day, A. D. Porter, Luther Jordan and John Terry were named active pall bearers, with J. W. McGrath, Marion Furr, Jack Swinney, Lawrence Fiduccia, Tom Young and Ralph Blades, honorary. Mr. Furr died Sunday afternoon in the King’s Daughters’ Hospital, Brookhaven and his body remained at the Hartman Funeral Home until the hour of the funeral. Widely connected with prominent families of this vicinity, Mr. Furr had many relatives who called at the Funeral Home and attended the service there and at Bahala. Mr. Furr had been engaged in the saw mill business until his final illness, and was widely acquainted in Franklin, Lincoln and Lawrence. He had made a host of friends who deplore his passing. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Clara Russell Furr, McCall’s Creek; daughters, Mrs. Lucien S. Gaudet, Natchez; Mrs. J. O. Rutledge, Brookhaven, Mrs. Gertie White, New Orleans; Mrs. Otis Ray, Mobile, Ala., Mrs. Cleveland Newton, Brookhaven; and son, Robert Oliver Furr, Brookhaven. Other survivors are his sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Evans, Tampa, Fla.; Mrs. Eugenia Evans, Brookhaven; and Mrs. Virgil Lea, Arm; and brothers, Charlie Furr, Ruth, and Tom J. Furr, New Orleans; and a half-brother, Joe Furr, in the air corps, at Charlotte, N.C.