Furr - Elizabeth Fletcher
Elizabeth Fletcher Furr
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, 8-Sep-1959, 1: 3
Elizabeth Furr Is Dead At 102- Funeral Services Set For Thursday- Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Furr, 102-year-old former Waynetown resident, died at 6 p.m. Monday at Shahan Nursing Home, 613 Kentucky St. She had been a patient at the nursing home seven years and had been bedfast most of that time because of a twice-broken hip. She was born Dec. 12, 1856, on a farm 4 ½ miles south of Waynetown, a daughter of William and Sophia Sheeley Fletcher, who came to Indiana from Ohio. She was the last of a family of 10 children. She married Frank Furr, a Fountain County farmer, who died April 6, 1933. Mrs. Furr remembers as a child of hearing her father tell of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. She was a charter member of the Ingersoll Chapel Church southeast of Waynetown. When the church disbanded a number of years ago she became a member of the Waynetown Christian Church. Mrs. Furr lived in Waynetown and vicinity most of her life. Surviving are a granddaughter, Mrs. Clarence Alvey of New Ross; a niece, Mrs. Flo McBroom of Waynetown and two nephews, Cal Work of Waynetown and Clayton Work of Hillsboro. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Mrs. Pearl Long who died Feb. 22, 1936. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at Servies Funeral Home at Waynetown with Rev. John R. Servies officiating. Interment will be in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. Friends may pay their respects at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Rites Conducted For Mrs. Elizabeth Furr- WAYNETOWN- Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth F. Furr were held Thursday afternoon at the Servies Funeral Home. Rev. John R. Services officiated and Mrs. Nellie Snyder played organ music. Pallbearers were Parvin Furr, David Harper, Henry Wood, Floyd Suitors, Jess Collins and Paul Long. They also Assisted with the flowers. Burial was in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. Mrs. Furr, 102, was a resident of Waynetown and vicinity until seven years ago when she entered the Shahan Nursing Home in Crawfordsville where she died Monday. - File Created: 12 June 2010 (thanks, Lena)
Source: "Obituaries - Year - 1950 Volume B" from the Covington Public Library. Year 1959
Mrs. Elizabeth Furr, oldest resident of Montgomery County remarked on her 102nd Birthday Anniversary that she did not even feel like she was a hundred years old. Mrs. Furr was a resident of this vicinity several years ago when she and her husband, Frank Furr, who died April 6, 1933, resided on a farm in the Ingersoll Chapel neighborhood.
Mrs. Furr resides in the Shahan Nursing Home in Crawfordsville, having been a patient there for the past six years. She spends most of her time in bed because a twice broken hip has left her immobile. Her memory is excellent, though she is virtually blind and has difficulty hearing. She sat in a chair and posed for a photography to take her picture on her 102nd birthday, saying she wanted to turn to the side a bit as she looked better in a profile.
She remembers as a child of hearing her father tell of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Furr is a charter member of the old Ingersoll Chapel Church and at present is a member of the Waynetown Christian Church. Mrs. Furr was born December 12, 1856 on a farm 4½ miles south of Waynetown, the daughter of William and Sophia Sheeley Fletcher, who came to Indiana from Ohio. She is the last of a family of ten children.
She was in surprisingly good spirits on her birthday as she starts her 103rd year. - jz
Source: "Obituaries - Year - 1950 Volume B" from the Covington Public Library. 11 September 1959
Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Furr, 102 year-old former resident of the Ingersoll Chapel neighborhood southeast of Hillsboro died Monday at the Shahan Nursing Home in Crawfordsville where she had been a patient for the past seven years. She suffered from a twice-broken hip and was bedfast most of the time.
She was the daughter of William and Sophia Sheeley Fletcher, born Dec. 12, 1856, and was the last survivor of a family of 10 children. She married Frank Furr, of near Hillsboro, who died April 6, 1933. She was a charter member of Ingersoll Chapel Church and later joined the Waynetown Christian Church.
Survivors are a granddaughter, Mm. Clarence Alvey of New Ross; a niece, Mrs. Flo McBroom of Waynetown and two nephews, Clayton Work of Hillsboro and Cal Work, Waynetown. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Mrs. Pearl Long, who died Feb. 22, 1936.,
Funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon at the Servies Funeral Home at Waynetown with Rev. John R. Servies officiating with burial in Waynetown Masonic Cemetery. - jz