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Former high school coach Charles Combs Furr dies
HERALD-LEADER STAFF REPORT
Charles Combs "Charlie'' Furr, a former state government official and former coach of Frankfort's Good Shepherd High School boys' basketball team, died of heart failure Wednesday at Frankfort Regional Hospital. He was 82. Mr. Furr worked for the state Cabinet for Human Resources for about 25 years, serving as state director of manpower training. In earlier years he worked at Scott's Furniture in Frankfort. He coached the Good Shepherd boys' basketball team from 1950 to 1968, and later was the school's athletics director. Mr. Furr was born in Frankfort. He graduated from Frankfort High School, where he played football and basketball, and studied accounting at Ohio University. He was a former president of the Frankfort Kiwanis Club and chairman of the Frankfort YMCA board. He also had been treasurer of the Bluegrass Council of the Girl Scouts of America. A member of Frankfort First Christian Church, he had been a church deacon, elder, trustee, board chairman and Sunday school teacher. He was the widower of Dorothy Perkins Furr. Survivors include two daughters, Jane Lee Crittenden of Springfield, Va., and Anne Rowland Kays of Mason, Ohio, and four grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Frankfort First Christian Church. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today at Rogers Funeral Home in Frankfort.