Date of birth: 11 Oct 1921
Date of death: 22 Jul 2005

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Burial Information

Section 01 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0943-02
Status: Occupied

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Veteran Information

Branch: US ARMY - 114th Field Artillery
Rank: SGT
War/Campaign: WORLD WAR II - Pacific Theater
Military Notes:
Jack Farmer was a sergeant in the 114th Field Artillery, Battery B in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

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Notes

Obituary 

Jack B. Farmer

Funeral services for Jack B. Farmer, 83, of Lexington were held at 3:00 p.m., Sunday, July 24, 2005 at First Baptist Church in Lexington. Rev. Blain McLain and Thad Henley officiated with interment in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington.

Mr. Farmer died Friday, July 22, 2005 at his residence on Rockport Road. He was born October 11, 1921 to Sam V. and Emma McLellan Farmer in West.

Mr. Farmer was a sergeant in the 114th Field Artillery, Battery B in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

In 1947, Mr. Farmer, along with R.S. Henley and Jack White, formed Lexington Hardware Co., where he remained employed until his retirement in the early 1990's.

He joined First Baptist Church in Lexington on October 26, 1934 and he served as a deacon since 1973. Since 1970, he served on the Building Committee, where he was the chairman. He was also a member of the Nathan Aldridge Sunday School Class.

Mr. Farmer was preceded in death by his wife Doris Nowell Farmer.

He is survived by two sons, Billy M. Farmer and Dudley G. Farmer, both of Lexington, and one grandson, Matthew Gayden Farmer of Memphis, Tennessee.

Pallbearers were: Timmy Angell, Bubba Holley, Jimmy Farmer, Sammy Massey, Dale Lott, and Christopher Massey.

Honorary pallbearers were: members of the Nathan Aldridge Sunday School Class, Reuben Netherland, Paul Gilmore, Virgil King, III, Len Ware, Jimmy Huggins, and Robert Earl Brown.

The Holmes County Herald (Lexington, Mississippi)
July 28, 2005, vol. 47, no. 30, pg. 8

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Parents
Samuel Victor Farmer Sr
1893–1968

Emma Lou McLellan Farmer
1886–1957

Siblings
Samuel Victor Farmer Jr
1917–1954

Leslie Isom "Dutch" Farmer
1919–2004

Jewell Farmer Massey
1924–1985

Infant Son Farmer
unknown–1913

Spouse
Doris Nowell Farmer
1922–2000

Children
Billy Mitchell Farmer
1952–2006

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