Ilon Owen Funderburg (1924 - 2002)

Born 21 Aug 1924 in Monticello, Jasper, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Died 26 Jan 2002 at age 77 in Atlanta, DeKalb, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Ilon was born in 1924. He was the son of Frederick Funderburg and Ethyl Westmoreland.

He attended Rutgers University graduate school, being the first black graduate. In 1950, he married Rosemary Fitts in St. Alphonsus Church, Durham, NC.^[1]

Known as "I.Owen" Funderburg, he was credited with saving Citizens Trust Bank by transforming a loss of $1.5 million in 1975, when he became president, to assets of $115 million when he retired as CEO in 1992. At the time of his death in 2002, the bank had assets of $295 million. ^[2] Owen also served as director of the Georgia World Congress center and the Underground Festival board. In addition, he was a member of the Atlanta Business Hall of Fame.

He passed away in 2002.

Owen's oldest brother, 1Lt. Frederick Funderburg, was a Tuskegee airman who died while on a mission in Italy. He continues to be Missing in Action

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QJ81-ZVRC
2. ↑ Augusta Chronicle, 30 Jan, 2002, pg. 31

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7GN-Y9T : 20 December 2019), Ilon Funderburg in household of Frederick Funderburg, Monticello, Militia District 295, Jasper, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 79-11, sheet 3B, line 43, family 56, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 686.