Sussex-Prince George County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Farmer, Edith V. Hargrave, 2000 

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EDITH VIRGINIA HARGRAVE FARMER 

  DENVER - Edith Virginia Hargrave Farmer died at Porter Hospice in Denver on 
Jan. 13, 2000.

  She was born in Disputanta Dec. 3, 1914, to Lucy Jane Hancock Hargrave and 
George Wesley Hargrave and grew up in the Wakefield area.  She married H.E. 
Farmer, Jr. of Abilene, Texas, on May 2, 1942, in Rome, GA.*

  She attended Blackstone (VA) Junior College and Asbury College (Wilmore, 
Ky.) and graduated from National Methodist Training School for Deaconesses and 
Missionaries (Kansas City. Mo.).  She was employed in church-related vocations 
most of her life, including work in Texas and Washington, D.C.  She retired 
from the staff of Southern Methodist University’s Perkins School of Theology, 
Dallas, in 1973.

  She and her husband spent their retirement years together in Gloucester and 
Wakefield, Va., and Dallas before moving to Merkel, Texas, in 1985.  Following 
her husband’s death in 1993, she moved to Denver.  She lived at Porter Place 
Retirement Residence and was an affiliate member of Emmanuel United Methodist 
Church.  She continued to have her church membership at the Wakefield United 
Methodist Church in Virginia.

  Survivors include her daughter, Patricia England of Old La Sal, Utah; nieces 
and nephews in Texas; a niece, Dana Wiggins of Portsmouth; a sister-in-law, 
Mrs. J. Marvin (Helen) Hargrave, of Newport News, and her children and their 
families, Phyllis Barfield of Smithfield, Sharon Coles of Newport News, 
Deborah Jones of Hampton and Lynn Kirkland of Newport News; a sister-in-law, 
Mrs. Raymond L. (Pauline) Hargrave, of Hampton, and her children and their 
families, Linda Hargrave of Hampton, Sandra Bodell of Troutville, Keith 
Hargrave of Athens, Ga., Dennis Hargrave of South Boston, Tim Hargrave of 
Ellicott City, Md., and Mark Hargrave of Newport News; and a cousin, Joanna 
Bowers of Columbia, GA.

  A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 5, at Wakefield 
Cemetery, Wakefield.


Edith Virginia (HARGRAVE; Mrs. H. Edward Jr.) FARMER, 
retired from SMU Perkins School of Theology, 
b. 3 Dec 1914, Disputanta, d. 13 Jan 2000, Denver, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery**, 
"The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Mar. 4, 2000, p. 28 

**Her brother Marvin is buried in the same plot. 
   Wakefield list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

*Edith & H.E. remarried 22 Jun 1963, in Rockwall Co., TX.  (M.Cert. 34548) 

He is buried with his parents, H. Eddie & Susie F. (BODEN) FARMER, 
   in Rose Hill Cemetery, Merkel, Taylor Co., TX. 
   (Find a Grave Mem. #49044969 &c.) 


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