FARRIS, BOYICE A. (CLOSEUP) - Wheeler County, Texas | BOYICE A. (CLOSEUP) FARRIS - Texas Gravestone Photos

Boyice A. (closeup) FARRIS

Wheeler Cemetery
Wheeler County,
Texas

August 27, 1909-March 9, 1994

*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 60, Number 16, Thursday, March 17, 1994, Page 1)

Boyice Andrew Farris, 84, died Wednesday, March 9, 1994.

Services were at 3 p.m. Sunday in First United Methodist Church. Rev. Warren Schoenecker, pastor, and Rev. Kerry Moore, pastor of Church of the Nazarene, officiated. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.

Mr. Farris, born in Wheeler County, attended schools and was a lifetime resident of Wheeler County. He married Louella Oliver in Wheeler. She died in 1973. He then married Opal Smith in 1974 in Wheeler. He was a farmer and worked for 16 years for the Texas Highway Department, retiring in 1974. He was a member of First United Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Opal; a son, Kenneth Farris of Houston; two daughters, Carolyn Mulkins of Waxahachie and Sharon Gandy of Panhandle; a step-daughter, Phyllis Barber of Clinton, Okla.; a brother, Earl Farris of Wheeler; two sisters, Cordie Jones of Amarillo and Ruth Stout of San Diego; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

The family request memorials be to the Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center or First United Methodist Church.

Contributed on 10/28/21

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Submitted: 10/28/21 • Approved: 10/28/21 • Last Updated: 10/31/21 • R465466-G0-S3

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