Name: Donald Hugh Farr
Age: 71
Residence: Corinth, MS
Date of Death: January 30, 2016
Place of Death: Magnolia Regional Health Center
Location of Service: Glendale Baptist Church
Date and Time: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 @ 11:00am
Visitation: Monday, February 1, 2016 from 5:00pm-8:00pm at Magnolia Funeral Home and Tuesday, February 2, 2016 from 10:00am until service time at Glendale Baptist Church.
Officiating: Bro. Jon Haimes and Bro. Jack Bennett
Cemetery: Glendale Baptist Church Cemetery with Military Honors and Masonic Rites
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: July 15, 1944
Occupation: Worked at Intex Plastics for 19 years and a retired electrician for PCA.
Military Service: 1st Class Airman veteran of the U. S. Airforce who served in the Vietnam War.
Church: Member of Glendale Baptist Church
Mr. Farr was a Master Mason with the Corinth Lodge # 116 Scottish and York Rite, a Shriner, a member of the American Legion Post 15 – Iuka, MS. He was an avid Sportsman who loved hunting and fishing. He was the choir director for Love Joy and Glendale Baptist Church for 25 years. He loved his friends and family especially his grandchildren and great grandchildren and enjoyed gardening and working on his farm and working with his cattle. Mr. Farr loved his church and his church family and loved serving others.
SURVIVOR INFORMATION
Wife : Karen Searcy – Rienzi, MS
Son: Jason Farr and wife Karen – Rienzi, MS
Daughter: Krista Luce and husband Gaines – Bartlett, TN
Step –son: Frank Leal and wife Lesley – Southaven, MS
6 Grandchildren: Anna Shipman and husband Hunter, Kirk Emerson and wife Jaisa, Audrey Farr, Avery Farr, Ayden Leal, Aaron Leal
3 Great Grandchildren: Hayden Shipman, Holden Shipman, Easton Emerson
Brother: Lloyd Farr and wife Patsy- Burnsville, MS
Sister: Janice Hendrix- Burnsville, MS
OTHER RELATIVES AND A HOST OF FRIENDS
Pallbearers: Tommy Farr, Freddie Farr, Larry Cole, Melvin Olgesby, Jackie Farr, Frank Leal, John Emerson, Hunter Shipman
PRECEDED IN DEATH
Granddaughter: Erin Elizabeth Emerson
Father: William Jasper Farr
Mother: Lois Marie Farr
Sister: Rhnea Strickland
Mother of his children: Brenda Gail Farr
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