DOTTIE FARMER

CARTHAGE-A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Lamar for Dottie J. Farmer, 76, who died Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016. Anyone wanting to join the procession should meet at Ulmer Funeral Home in Carthage at 9:15 a.m. that morning.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, at 2445 West Oak St., in Carthage.

Contributions may be made to Oakton Methodist Church, in care of the funeral home.

Online condolences may be made at www.ulmerfh.com.

Survivors include one son, Terry Farmer, Chicago, Ill.; one daughter, Teresa McNaught, Liberal; one brother, Jerry Lawson, Joplin; two grandsons, Justin Lair and Colin McNaught and one great-granddaughter, Payton Lair.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Frankie Lawson and Gerry Lawson and one sister, Carolyn Silvers.

Mrs. Farmer was born March 3, 1940, in Greenfield, to George and Irene Lawson. She had managed several convenience stores and restaurants in the Lamar and Carthage areas. She also owned and operated the Whippoorwill Cafe in the Boston, Mo. community for several years, beginning in 1999.

She was the family matriarch, always putting friends and family before herself. Family was her everything.

She married Darrell L. Farmer on Oct. 6, 1956, in Cedar County. He died July 12, 1996.