Ira William Fortenberry
1883 – Feb 1945 MS
Son of Ivan Hollis Fortenberry & Laura Ann Alford
Wife: Mollie Schilling
My 2ndCousin, 2x removed
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Ira W. Fortenberry Buried Monday at Silver Springs
Progress. Feb. 16 – Funeral services were held Monday at 3 p. m. from the Silver Springs Baptist church for Ira W. Fortenberry, 62, resident of the Silver Springs Community, who passed away at his home Sunday afternoon.
He leaves to mourn his passing his wife, Mrs. Mollie Schilling Fortenberry; two children, Roy Fortenberry, in overseas service, and Herman Fortenberry of Florida; four sisters, Mrs. Murry E. Regan of Magnolia, Mrs. Charles Schilling of Progress, Mrs. John N. Alford of Tylertown, and Mrs. Herbert Lane of Summitt; six brothers, Marvin, Walter, B. L. [Bernard] and R. C. [Robert] Fortenberry of, all of Arkansas, D. W. [Daniel Webster] and C. L. [Charles Ellis?] Fortenberry, both of Jackson, Miss.
Internment in the church cemetery followed the funeral service.
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Memorial #22274300
[Notes in green are mine.]
Source: Ira W. Fortenberry Buried Monday at Silver Springs (McComb, MS: Enterprise-Journal, 16 Feb 1945) 4; digital image, Newspapers.com: accessed July 2018.
Note: I know the sisters are: Leona Eva Fortenberry, Golda Viola Fortenberry, Rosa Fortenberry and Beulah D. Fortenberry. Can anyone match those sisters with the married names? If you can I'd like to hear from you.
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ReplyDeleteBeulah Deane Fortenberry Brock Alford
BIRTH 1884
DEATH 1958 (aged 73–74)
BURIAL
Silver Springs Baptist Church Cemetery
Progress, Pike County, Mississippi, USA
MEMORIAL ID 16343983
I am a grandson of the Ira William Fortenberry who passed away in 1945. I was named after Grandpa Ira, but as I was born in 1951, I never had the opportunity to meet him. My father is Ira's younger son, Iven Hermon Fortenberry, who was also named after his grandfather -- Iven Fortenberry. My father Hermon was born in 1915, and died in 1995 at age 80. Hermon was one of the 2 sons of Grandpa Ira and Grandma Mallie Fortenberry, the elder son being Roy Fortenberry. The 1945-vintage obit for Grandpa Ira posted in this blogspot was from the McComb newspaper?, and it contains 2 small errors: Grandpa Ira's father's name is Iven, not Ivan. And Grandpa Ira's wife's name is Mallie, not Mollie. Grandma Mallie lived for many years after Ira's passing, and my family visited her many times at her farmhouse, located on top of the hill a little southwest of the Silver Springs Baptist Church. Feel free to contact me at iwfortenberry@aol.com.
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