ROLLING FORK - Mellye Pierce Furr, 92, homemaker and former teacher, died of heart failure Tuesday at Heritage Manor Nursing Home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Boone Funeral Home in Hollandale with burial in Hollandale City Cemetery. Mortimer Funeral Home in Greenville has charge. She had attended Teacher's School in Wesson and was a member of Delta City Baptist Church.
Mrs. Furr, the widow of Dewey Furr, leaves two daughters, Erlene Clark of Hollandale and Etta 'Tincie' Westbrook of Mobile, Ala.; a son, D. A. 'Buck' Furr of Hollandale; a sister, Elva Abbott of Port Gibson; two brothers, H. A. Pierce of Bullhead City, Ariz., and A. J. Pierce of Twentynine Palms, Calif., nine grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Published in The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), September 25, 1997
Mrs. Furr, the widow of Dewey Furr, leaves two daughters, Erlene Clark of Hollandale and Etta 'Tincie' Westbrook of Mobile, Ala.; a son, D. A. 'Buck' Furr of Hollandale; a sister, Elva Abbott of Port Gibson; two brothers, H. A. Pierce of Bullhead City, Ariz., and A. J. Pierce of Twentynine Palms, Calif., nine grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Published in The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), September 25, 1997
ROLLING FORK - Mellye Pierce Furr, 92, homemaker and former teacher, died of heart failure Tuesday at Heritage Manor Nursing Home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Boone Funeral Home in Hollandale with burial in Hollandale City Cemetery. Mortimer Funeral Home in Greenville has charge. She had attended Teacher's School in Wesson and was a member of Delta City Baptist Church.
Mrs. Furr, the widow of Dewey Furr, leaves two daughters, Erlene Clark of Hollandale and Etta 'Tincie' Westbrook of Mobile, Ala.; a son, D. A. 'Buck' Furr of Hollandale; a sister, Elva Abbott of Port Gibson; two brothers, H. A. Pierce of Bullhead City, Ariz., and A. J. Pierce of Twentynine Palms, Calif., nine grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Published in The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), September 25, 1997
Mrs. Furr, the widow of Dewey Furr, leaves two daughters, Erlene Clark of Hollandale and Etta 'Tincie' Westbrook of Mobile, Ala.; a son, D. A. 'Buck' Furr of Hollandale; a sister, Elva Abbott of Port Gibson; two brothers, H. A. Pierce of Bullhead City, Ariz., and A. J. Pierce of Twentynine Palms, Calif., nine grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Published in The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN), September 25, 1997
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