Individual Details
Roger Thomas FURR
(September 13, 1903 - September 26, 1953)
Events
| Birth | September 13, 1903 | District of Columbia |  | ||
| Baptism | October 8, 1907 | District of Columbia | |||
| Marriage | June 19, 1930 | Monroe County, NY - Florence Cecilia "Floy" RAFFERTY | | ||
| Occupation | 1940 | construction engineer - Allegheny County, PA | |||
| Death | September 26, 1953 | Rochester, Monroe County, NY |  | | |
| Burial | Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe County, NY | |
Families
| Spouse | Florence Cecilia "Floy" RAFFERTY (1903 - 1982) |
| Child | Roger Thomas FURR (1943 - 1992) |
| Father | Minor Edward FURR (1870 - 1939) |
| Mother | Myrtle B. THOMAS (1876 - 1963) |
| Sibling | Margaret V. FURR (1910 - 1991) |
| Sibling | Martha Agnus FURR (1913 - 1997) |
| Sibling | Joseph Stuart FURR (1914 - 1969) |
Notes
Death
Services for Roger T. Furr, 50, an engineer for Booth & Flinn here, will be held tomorrow at the Trotts Funeral Home, Rochester, N. Y. Mr. Furr died Saturday of a heart ailment while visiting relatives in the upstate New York city. His home was at 1411 Brownsville Rd. and he worked for the contracting firm over a number of years. He took part in the company’s construction of Bigelow Boulevard, the Montgomery Dam near Beaver, Westinghouse Bridge and Banksville Road. Starting with the company in 1929, he left near the outset of World War II and returned 3 years ago. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Floy Rafferty Furr; a son, Roger Thomas Furr; his mother, Mrs. Myrtle T. Furr, of Washington; a brother, Joseph, also of Washington, and two sisters, Mrs. Louls Heiss, of Silver Springs, Md, and Mrs. Francis Fitzgerald, of Tucson, Ariz. Burial will be in Rochester.The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1953
Endnotes
1. District of Columbia Research Files http://www.genealogyforum.com/files/DC/.
2. "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJM-4CFL : 16 January 2021).
3. The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
4. "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLB2-1YQF : 20 October 2019).
5. findagrave.com.