Willie "Bill" Farris

WILLIE "BILL" EDGAR FARRIS OF POTOSI, MISSOURI WAS BORN IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, MISSOURI ON APRIL 30, 1933. HE WAS THE SON OF THE LATE JUDSON AND ROSE (RICHARDS) FARRIS. BILL DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON DECEMBER 5, 2002 AT THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN FESTUS, MISSOURI HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SIXTY-NINE YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS AND FIVE DAYS.
BILL WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ALENE PASHIA AND TO THIS UNION TEN CHILDREN WERE BORN.
BILL IS SURVIVED BY THREE DAUGHTERS, JOAN GRAHAM AND HUSBAND JIM OF CADET, MISSOURI, CONNIE CRIDER AND HUSBAND MELVIN OF CADET, MISSOURI AND BRENDA WRIGHT OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, SIX SONS, EVERETT FARRIS AND WIFE MARILYN OF CADET, MISSOURI, MELVIN FARRIS AND WIFE LINDA OF CADET, MISSOURI, DONALD FARRIS AND WIFE FLOSSIE OF CADET, MISSOURI, RANDY FARRIS AND WIFE SUSAN OF CADET, MISSOURI, MIKE FARRIS OF CADET, MISSOURI AND BRYAN FARRIS OF POTOSI, MISSOURI, TWENTY FIVE GRANDCHILDREN AND SEVERAL GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, TWO SISTERS, ELSIE BOYSTER AND HUSBAND JUNIOR AND MAE RULO AND HUSBAND BUTCH, THREE BROTHERS, BEN FARRIS AND WIFE JOYCE, LEONARD FARRIS AND WIFE JODIE OF POTOSI, MISSOURI AND JOHN FARRIS OF LEESBURG, MISSOURI AND SEVERAL NIECES, NEPHEWS AND OTHER RELATIVE AND FRIENDS. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS AND WIFE HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY SON, LESTER FARRIS, SISTERS, ALICE RAY AND INFANT MARY LOU FARRIS, BROTHERS, JUNIOR FARRIS AND GEORGE FARRIS.
VISITATION WAS HELD 10:00 AM TO 2:00 PM ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2002 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME POTOSI.
A FUNERAL SERVICE WAS CONDUCTED 2:00 PM ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7,2002 AT THE MOORE MEMORIAL CHAPEL WITH BROTHER DON STRAUSER OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE NEW DIGGINS CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE GREG FARRIS, JEFF FARRIS, DENNIS FARRIS, TIM FARRIS, WAYLON GRAHAM AND CHRIS CUSUMANO.