Farmer, Dorothy G. 1907-2003

FARMER, EVANS, SCANDRETT, RENBARGER, THOMAS, FLEENER, JONES, MORRISON, SHEFFIELD, CARTER, ANDREWS

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Date: 4/10/2013 at 17:22:31

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
March 24, 2003

DOROTHY G. FARMER

Dorothy G. Farmer, 95, of Grinnell died Saturday, April 19, 2003, at St. Francis Manor.

A funeral service was held Tuesday, April 22, at First Baptist Church with the Rev. Tim Stewart, pastor of the church, officiating. Music was by Denise Baustian, organist, and Jeanette Tisdale, pianist. Casket bearers were her grandchildren, Kathryn Andrews, David Fleener, Rick Fleener, Michael Renbarger and Steve Renbarger. Honorary bearers were her great grandchildren, Kyle, Abigail, Emily, David and Elizabeth Renbarger, Cory Andrews, and Megan, Lauren, Erick and Karl Fleener. Burial was in Hazelwood Cemetery. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church or Grinnell Regional Hospice in care of Smith Funeral Home, PO Box 368, Grinnell.

She was born Oct. 17, 1907, in Grinnell to William and Matilda Grace Evans Scandrett. She was raised in Grinnell, graduating from Grinnell High School with the class of 1925, after which she taught in rural Poweshiek County schools. On Nov. 25, 1930, she was married to Charles Burrson Farmer in Grinnell. The couple lived in the Westfield area south of Grinnell where she was a homemaker and mother and active in activities of Grant #9 School.

She had been a member of First Baptist Church since 1919, a deaconess of the church, a Sunday School teacher and a member of the church's women's society. She also was a member of the Westfield Homemakers Club.

She is survived by two daughters, Carol Thomas of Yankton, S.D., and Stella Fleener of Grinnell, five grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, one brother Milton Scandrett and four sisters, Alice Jones, Lulu Morrison, Bernice Sheffield and Esther Carter.