Individual Details

Death

SUNBURY — Mrs. Viola M. Furr, 61, of 313 Vine St. was pronounced dead on arrival in the Sunbury Community Hospital at 11:02 p.m. Thursday. Mrs. Furr had worked for the former Nite Kraft Corp., Sunbury, and was a member of the Ladies Garment Workers Union. She was of Methodist faith. Born in Shamokin, April 28, 1916, she was a daughter of the late John R. and Cora E. Shadle Kehler. Survivors are her husband, Ralph E., and the following children: Robert Fabian of Indianapolis, Ind., Mrs. Carol Watts of Sunbury RDI, Mrs. Dianne Tobias, Gary Furr, Timothy Furr and Miss Karen Furr, all of Sunbury; 14 grandchildren; a brother, Eugene Homer of Naugauct, Conn.; and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Geyer of Sunbury. A son, Chester Fabian died in 1969. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in the Zweier Funeral Home, Sunbury, by the Rev. Alan J. Keiffer, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Northumberland. Burial will be in Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Sunbury. Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday evening.
The Daily Item, Sunbury, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1978