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Submitted: 1/24/21 • Approved: 1/25/21 • Last Updated: 1/28/21 • R381790-G0-S3
CAPTAIN US Army Air Corps
World War II
April 26, 1916 - June 18, 2001
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
FRITCH - Fred S. "Ted" Farmer, 85, died Monday, June 18, 2001, in Amarillo.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Garden of Devotion at Westlawn Memorial Park with the Rev. Barry Loving, pastor of First Christian Church of Pampa, officiating. Arrangements are by Minton / Chatwell Funeral Directors of Fritch
Mr. Farmer was born in Forestburg. He moved to Wheeler County in 1927 with his family. He had been a Borger resident since 1963.
Mr. Farmer retired as an operator for Phillips Petroleum Co. in 1983. He was a bombardier in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
He married Charleen Keeler on Nov. 4, 1944, in Shamrock. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Beverly Johnson, in 1998. Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Fredda Smith of Fritch and Mayda King and her husband, Terry, of Pampa; two brothers, P.L. "Percy" Farmer of Wheeler and Clifford Farmer of Fritch; two sisters, Lois Johnson of Borger and Oneta Murray of Hemphill; five grandchildren, Dawn and Brian Swartwood, Shaunda and Dick Patterson, Greg and Shannon King, Craig and Monti Smith and Chalan and Robert Galloway; and eight great-grandchildren, Morgan and Ryan King, Dathan Galloway, Madelyn Gunn, Raedon Smith, Shey Patterson and Cody Swartwood.
Amarillo Globe-News, June 19, 2001
Contributed on 1/24/21 by neldapat
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