Jim Furman

Memorial services for Jim Furman, 71, Bella Vista, were Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, at The Salvation Army in Rogers.
He died Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, at Northwest Regional Hospital in Bentonville, from kidney failure immediately following heart bypass surgery.
He was born Nov. 22, 1938, in Lawrence, Kan., the son of Dave and Louise Downs Furman. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1957.
In the late 1950s, Mr. Furman was a manager of Big Buy, a fast food establishment at 23rd and Iowa streets in Lawrence. He also managed the Big Boy in Manhattan, Kan., in the 1960s, which was an early Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise. He worked for WIBW radio in Topeka, Kan., and then worked with real estate in Springfield, Mo. After that he worked with KC105, Moran Broadcasting.
He was an avid hunter and fisherman. He also volunteered much of his time to The Salvation Army in Rogers.
He married Betty Setter of Lawrence on Dec. 26, 1959. They later divorced. He then married Sally Goeller in 1985 in Fayetteville. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two daughters, Teresa Fair, Las Vegas, and Carol Newkirk, Bella Vista; two stepchildren, Heidi Wheeler and Marcus Wheeler, both of Wichita, Kan.; four grandchildren, Natasha Jostad, Shawn Newkirk, Cody Coonfield and Bradley Fair; and one great-grandchild, Braxton Jostad.
The family suggests memorials to The Salvation Army, 504 N. Dixieland Road, Rogers, AR 72756.