ELSIE FARROW

JACKSON -- Elsie Marie Farrow, 73, of Jackson died Saturday, Dec. 12, 1998, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home.

She was born Dec. 19, 1924, at Ste. Genevieve, daughter of Jules and Elsie Neubrand Moore. She and Truman Farrow were married on April 9, 1948. He died April 4, 1989.

She was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church of Jackson. She was founder and charter member of the Mental Health Association of Cape Girardeau County and was a past president of the association and served as chairwoman of several steering committees.

She was a graduate of Bonne Terre High School and Flat River Junior College. She obtained a journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She worked as a reporter for the Bonne Terre Bulletin Weekly, Southeast Missourian and Jackson Journal.

She is survived by four sons, Charles Truman Farrow Jr. of Oak Ridge, Michael Jules Farrow of Cape Girardeau, Joseph Andrew Farrow of Lake Charles, La., and Christopher Kent Farrow of Jackson; three daughters, Margaret Gerard of Columbia, Patricia Fornkohl of Cape Girardeau and Elsie Marie Allen of Orlando, Fla.; two brothers, Jack Moore and Roy Moore, both of Bonne Terre; and 14 grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother.

Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 4 to 8 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7 p.m.

Funeral Mass will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson. Monsignor Edward Eftink will officiate, with burial in McLain's Chapel Cemetery near Oriole.