Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Tuesday, December 1, 1953

Former Jacksonian Dies In California

Funeral services will be held Wednesday in San Diego, California, for Earl V. Gurman, former Jackson business man. He was 46.

Mr. Gurman was a native of Clarksdale but was in business for a number of years in Jackson. He died Thursday in San Diego.

Survivors include his wife of San Diego, California; two brothers, Ernest Gurman of Reno, Nevada, and Cecil H. Gurman, of Clarksdale; his mother, Mrs. Alice Gurman, Clarksdale; and one sister, Mrs. Charles Mae Sapradley [sic Charlie Mae Spradley], Clarksdale. He had one nephew, Ernest B. Gurman, Jr., Jackson, a student at Mississippi Southern.