Individual Details

Death

WINNSBORO — Services for Msgt. Robert Lee Furr, 52, of Winnsboro are scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday in McCrary-Edwards-Cain Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Melvin Harrell officiating. Burial is scheduled in Pleasant Grove Memorial Park. Msgt. Furr died Sunday morning in a Carswell, N.M., hospital after a long illness. A Gilmer County, West Virginia native, he was a retired Air Force man. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Floy Furr of Winnsboro; four daughters, Mrs. Sandy Spinner of Cartersville, Ga., Mrs. Linda K. Carney of Midwest City, Okla., Miss Laurene Lee Furr of Choctow, Okla., and Mrs. Robbie Robertson of Dallas; one son, Billie Eddy of Dallas; three brothers, Arden Furr of England, Jim Furr of Cleveland, Ohio, and Carroll Furr of Akron, Ohio; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Blakeley of Michigan, Mrs. Shelia Crain of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Marguarete Gregory of New Lebanon, Ohio; and three grandchildren. Air Force personnel will serve as pallbearers.
Tyler Morning Telegraph, Tyler, Texas, March 26, 1980

Soc Sec No

State (Year) SSN issued: West Virginia (Before 1951)

Military

He retired as a Master Sergeant from the USAF after serving 26 years in the Air Force. (There is a story that he actually lied about his age in order to join the Navy Seabeas then shortly after joined the Air Force). He served in the World War II, Korea, and the Vietnam War.