Christine Ruth Farlow (2004)

FARLOW, KIRK, SHORT, LOMBARDO

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 2/17/2006 at 10:02:18

CHRISTINE RUTH FARLOW

Winterset Madisonian
20 October 2004

Christine Ruth Farlow, 85, of Winterset Oct. 12, 2004 at Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset.

Funeral services were held Saturday Oct. 16 at the First Christian Church in Winterset with Pastor Joan White officiating. Burial was at Winterset Cemetery.

Christine Farlow was born March 10, 1919 in Clarke County to Vern and Susie (Kirk) Short. On June 4, 1939, she married Jack Farlow in Winterset. Christine had been a rural school teacher for a few years. She also worked at the Ben Franklin Store for 30 years. She was a resident of Madison County for most of her life, moving to Winterset in 1969. She had been a 48 year member of the Crown Rebekah Lodge, a 4-H Extension leader and a member of the First Christian Church in Winterset and the former Barney Christian Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband; a granddaughter, Cari Leigh Lombardo; and one infant great-grandchild.

She is survived by three sons, Ralph Dean Farlow of Manhatten, Mont., LaVerne Keith Farlow of Winterset and Richard Carroll of Parkville, Mo. a brother Willard Short of Winterset and five grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Collins Oak Park Chapel in Winterset.