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Established 1948   Sherman - Funeral services for Emma Lee Furlow were held Saturday, May 26, 2018 at Grand Avenue Church of Christ with Bro. Charles Shaw officiating and Hugh Moody as solosit, and Jerry Spalding and Tommy Sikes speaking. Burial followed at Cedarlaw Memorial Park. Mrs. Furlow, 84, passed away Monday, May 21, 2018 at Texoma Medical Center. Emma was born July 22, 1933 in Calera, Oklahoma to Bethel and Nora Page Beshearse. She graduated from Calera High School in 1951. She worked as a nurse's aide at the Calera Nursing Home and Denison Memorial Hospital for many years. She later worked as a wine steward at Tanglewood and served as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels of Denison. Mrs. Furlow was a member of the Morton Street Church of Christ for over 40 years and was currently a member of the Grand Avenue Church of Christ. She was very proud of her grandchildren, R.C. and Elizabeth, and went to every dance recital, every Boy Scout event and attended all their high school and college graduations when she was able. She was a lifelong, faithful member of the Democratic Party as well as an avid historian, espeically knowledgeable of the Civil War and the Holacaust. She always said she was an FDR Democrat and that "President Roosevelt pulled us out of the depression." Emma dearly loved Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, and Billy Graham. She always said that "President Lincoln was our greatest president because he saved the Union." She brought people into our home in San Francisco and took care of them, one time a whole Portugese family. She had a great love for classical music, especiall Chopin. Even though her family could not continue to pay for music lessons for her during the depression, she made sure her daughter, Susan, had piano lessons and she later got her Master's Degree in music, thanks to her mother. She started her daughter, Susan, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music when she was six. Emma Lee worked hard all her life, first growing up on a farm. After her husband, Frank Grossman, passed away in 1966, she and her daughter, Susan, moved from San Francisco to her childhood home in Calera, Oklahoma, where she took care of her parents. She worked the night shift at the Calera nursing home for $1.69 an hour through the 1960s and part of the 1970s. Even though she never was paid overtime, she stayed every morning to help feed the older residents that needed help with their breakfast. She loved baseball and had season tickets in the 1960s to see the Giants in San Francisco. She also loved the Mavericks. She was wonderful at playing dominos and Shoot the Moon, and she was a great cook and her cheesecake was the best. Mrs. Furlow supported Father Flannigan's Boys Town and Habitat for Humanity. Mrs. Furlow is survived by her only child, Susan Slagle and husband, Bob, of Sherman; grandson, R.C. Slagle IV and girlfriend, Emily Cline, of Winston Salem, North Carolina; and granddaughter, Elizabeth Slagle and finace, Yoshua Rubinstein, of Las Vegas; and her good friends, Dessie Luke, Betty Lake, Bonnie Francis, Gail Hariman, Nicole Garza, Jerry and Bonnie Spradling, Pastor Jerry Hodge, Tommy Sykes, Pastor Jesse and Terry Whitlock, Frankie O'Dell, Tarnita Sue Campbell, Jimmy Jones, Catherine Perry, and Clyde Clifton Moody. She was preceded in death by her parents; two husband, Frank Grossman and George D. Furlow, Jr.; and one brother, Elmer Beshearse; one sister, Mary McNally; and one niece, Donna Jane Morton. In lieu of flowers, memorial may be made to Meals on Wheels at 531 W. Chestnut, Denison, Texas, 75020/ She and her daughter had a inseparable bond. I love you, Mommy - Susan - - - Waldo Funeral Home  Cedarlawn Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |