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Natchez — Services for Virginia Furr Bird, 102, of Sicily Island, La., who died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008, at her residence will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at New Pine Hill Baptist Church. Burial will be at Old Pine Hill Cemetery near Sicily Island under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home. Visitation will be today from 5 to 8 p.m. at New Pine Hill Baptist Church.

SICILY ISLAND, La. - Services for Virginia Furr Bird, 102, of Sicily Island, La., who died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008, in Sicily Island, will be at 1 p.m. today at Pine Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. Clois Cole officiating. Burial will follow at Old Pine Hill Cemetery under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home in Ferriday. Mrs. Bird was born Sept. 28, 1905, in Wesson, the daughter of Lee Wray Furr and Emma Cordelia Girault Furr. She was a homemaker and a member of Pine Hill Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Audley Verne Bird; her parents; two daughters, Deta Allgood and Sunny Grayson; two grandsons, Darian Bird and Walter Grayson; three sisters; and four brothers. Survivors include one daughter, Laverne Harris of Bossier City, La.; one son, Girault Bird and wife, Juanita, both of Sicily Island; one sister-in-law, Sally Furr of Vidalia; two nieces, Mary Virginia Smith of Wisner, La. and Jane Olson of Nashville, Tenn.; four grandchildren, Judy Allgood Wallace, Ann Page Grayson Arnold, Mary Ellen Grayson Hopkins and John Girault Bird. Pallbearers will be Don Arnold, Ian Arnold, Hardy Hopkins, Jeffery Keith Hopkins, Stan Wallace and John Bird. Memorials may be made to Pine Hill Baptist Church, Sicily Island, La.