Barney Plough Passes Away

Barney Barnett Plough, retired pharmacist and longtime associate of Plough, Inc., passed away at Baptist Hospital Monday. He had been a patient there since February 11.

Mr. Plough was born in Aberdeen, Miss, 66 years ago but had lived in Memphis since he was two years old. He was the son of the late Moses and Julia Plough.

He was a brother of Abe Plough, president of Plough, Inc. Before his retirement January 1, 1955, Barney Plough was assistant manager of Consolidated Distributors, having assumed the position when the Plough firm bought the partnership in 1946. The partnership formed in 1939 consisted of Mr. Plough, his brother, Sam Plough, Leon Wurtzburger and Milton M. Shurman. For ten years prior to 1939, Mr. Plough owned and operated the White Way Pharmacy at Overton Park and Cleveland.

He attended Market Street School. Later, he became a newspaper reporter and then became associated with Battier’s Pharmacy. He worked up from stock boy to manager of two stores before he left the firm.

He was the fifth Memphian to volunteer for service in World War I and was discharged as a sergeant. He returned to his pharmacy work and was graduated from University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy.

He became widely known in the drug business and owned one of the largest suburban drug stores here.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Rhetta Falk Plough, Memphis; two daughters, Mrs. Joseph Metz and Mrs. Phillip Stillpass, both of New York City; a son, Maurice D. Plough, Memphis; three brothers, Abe Plough and Sam Plough, of Memphis, and Alfred Plough, of Philadelphia; a sister, Mrs. Milton Shurman, Memphis, and seven grandchildren.

Services were held Tuesday afternoon with Dr. James A. Wax officiating. Interment was in Temple Israel Cemetery.

Hebrew Watchman

July 26, 1956, page 1