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James Elery Furr Jr. - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal February 17, 1999

Funeral services for Mr. James Elery Furr Jr., age 80, of Delhi, La., were held at 3 p.m. Sunday, 
Feb. 14, in the chapel of Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home in Tallulah with the Rev. Paul Lipe officiating. 
Burial followed in the Silver Cross Cemetery in Tallulah.

Mr. Furr died Friday, Feb. 12, 1999, at Parkview Medical Center in Vicksburg, Miss.

Ile was a retired farmer and an active Elder and member of the Delhi Presbyterian Church, a graduate 
of Louisiana Tech, and a World War II veteran.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Elery Furr, a sister, Grace Furr Mitchell, 
and three baby sisters.

Survivors include his wife, Virginia Williams Furr of Delhi: one daughter, Mary Virginia Furr of Delhi: 
and one brother, Lewis B. Furr of Hot Springs, Ark.

Pallbearers were Nap Book, Freddy Truelove, Michael Lancaster, Charles Kendrick, Frank Thomas and Walter Scott. 

Honorary pallbearers were Edgar H. Lancaster and the deacons and elders of the Delhi Presbyterian Church.

The family requests that memorials be made to the Delhi Presbyterian Church. 

Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Horne was in charge of arrangements.