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Submitted: 10/13/21 • Approved: 10/13/21 • Last Updated: 10/16/21 • R462915-G462914-S3
Foy W.
March 12, 1902-September 7, 1991
Please see 2nd marker
Mary L.
August 27, 1902-October 30, 1984
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*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Foy
MOBEETIE - Foy W. Farmer, 89, died Saturday, Sept. 7, 1991.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Ralph Hovey, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home of Wheeler.
Mr. Farmer, born in Montague County, moved to Mobeetie in 1940. He married Mary Lee Landers in 1920 at Forestburg. She died in 1984. He was employed by the Hoechst Celanese Chemical Plant in Pampa until he retired in 1967. He was also a farmer. He was member of the First Baptist Church in Mobeetie.
Survivors include four brothers, Percy Farmer of Wheeler, Travis Farmer of Borger, Fred Farmer of Fritch and Clifford Farmer of Lela; and three sisters, Ina Satterfield of Pampa, Oneta Murray of Hemphill and Lois Johnson of Borger.
*Obituary Mary
Mary Lee Farmer, 82, died Oct. 30 in Coronado Community Hospital at Pampa.
Services were held on Oct. 31, 2:00 p.m. in the Mobeetie First Baptist Church with Rev. Ralph Hovey pastor and the Rev. Aaron Laverty officated [sic]. Burial was in the Wheeler Cemetary [sic] by Wright Funeral Home.
Mrs. Farmer was born in Forrestburg, she married Foy Farmer in 1920 at Forrestburg. She moved to Mobeetie in 1944. She was a member of the Mobeetie First Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, two brothers Jim Landers of Forrestburg and Doug Landers from Denton, two sisters Pearl Knox of Ryan Okla. and Vera Jackson from Nocona.
Mary was very loved in Mobeetie and will leave behind many friends. Pallbearers were: Roy Stribling, Tom Stribling, Wayne Stribling, Glen Farmer, Lynn Farmer and Neil Farmer.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 50, Number 49, Thursday, November 8, 1984, Page 1)
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