Individual Details

Death

Pfc. Maurice Furr, son of Mr. and Mrs M. N. Furr of Tunica, was killed in action Feb. 11, while with the 106th Infantry Division. A graduate of Tunica county, high school he attended Ole Miss for two years before entering the service. In service for two years, he had been overseas since October 1944, and was one of the men caught in the major battle before he had done more than night patrol. Pfc. Furr was a member of the 106th Infantry Division, the division singled out by the Secretary of War Stimson for special commendation for their courageous stand at Ardennes in December, 1944. It was this stand that cost the division one half of their men. He also had been awarded the Expert Infantryman’s Combat Badge. His sister, Mrs. J. B. Ryan resides in Jackson.

Funeral services were held in Jackson today for Pfc. Maurice Newton Furr, jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Furr of Robinsonville, Miss. Private Furr was a brother of Mrs. Jerome Ryan, 310 Eleventh ave., and a nephew of Mrs. Everette West, 198 Broad st. He was killed in action Feb. 11, 1945 in Europe. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan and Mr. and Mrs. West and daughters attended the funeral services today.