Christine Farmer

SIKESTON, Mo. -- The funeral for Christine Farmer will be held at 11 a.m. today at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston, Mo. The Rev. Greg Forrester will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery near Charleston.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 9:30 a.m. until service time.

Farmer, 77, died Monday, Dec. 30, 2002, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

She was born Dec. 31, 1924, in Drakesboro, Ky., daughter of Sherman and Mossie Hope Inglis. She and Henry Thomas Farmer were married Sept. 14, 1946. He died Jan. 18, 1978.

Farmer lived in Mississippi County a number of years prior to moving to Rockville, Ind. She later returned to the Sikeston area.

Survivors include a daughter, Robin Pierce of Morley, Mo.; a brother, James Inglis of San Diego, Calif.; a sister, Ruby Foster of Paris Crossing, Ind.; two grandchildren; and four great-granddaughters.

She was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters.