St. Clair County Obits

KEITH FARRIS
1921-2006

Columbia Daily Tribune
12 February 2006
K.W. Farris, 84, of Ashland, passed away Friday, Feb. 10, 2006, at Boone Hospital Center.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 13, at Robinson Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Keith was born Oct. 30, 1921, in Iowa, the son of Walter Lynn Farris and Lydia Wilson Farris. He married Jennie Munden on Nov. 6, 1948, in Pocahontas, Ark., and she survives.

Keith and his family moved to Ashland from north Missouri in March of 1956 to start The Sentinel Industries.

He was a member of the Ashland Masonic Lodge No. 156, Scottish Rite in Columbia, and Moolah Shriners in Columbia.

Survivors include his wife, Jennie Farris, of Ashland; two sons, Daniel Farris and his wife, Renee, of New Bloomfield, and Melvin Farris and his wife, Barbara, of Heber Springs, Ark.; one sister, Dorothy Bratton of Excelsior Springs; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Preceding him in death were his parents; two brothers, Maurice and Cedric; and a brother-in-law, James Bratton.

Memorial contributions are suggested to the American Diabetes or American Heart Association or to the Alzheimer’s Association.