Bob G. Farrar , Reading
Bob G. Farrar of Reading died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007, at Newman Regional Health. He was 80.
Mr. Farrar taught vocational agriculture at the Flint Hills Area Vocational School from 1967 until he retired in 1987. During this time he was also an adviser for Future Farmers of America and Young Farmers. He sold real estate and had an insurance license. Earlier, he worked at Phillips Petroleum Company in the Burbank field in Oklahoma from 1951 until 1958. He worked at Frontier Chemical in Wichita in the early 1960s. He taught vocational agriculture at Udall from 1961 to 1965. In 1961, he moved to Abilene and worked for Olin Matheson Chemical and was a fertilizer salesman from 1965 until 1967, when he moved to a farm south of Reading.
Mr. Farrar served 18 months in the Navy during World War II and was stationed at Guam.
The son of Charles Arthur and Beulah Bell Tennis Farrar, he was born June 3, 1926, near Shidler, Okla. He graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1950 with degrees in animal husbandry and education and from Kansas State University with a master’s degree in education.
He married Virginia Fager on Aug. 21, 1953, in Shidler, Okla. She survives.
Mr. Farrar served on the board of the Flint Hills Credit Union, worked on the 2000 census and did the Agriculture census. He was a steward for Eureka Downs and was racing secretary and grounds keeper at Mount Pleasant Meadows Race Track in Mount Pleasant , Mich. He was a member of the Sertoma Club, American Quarter Horse Association and American Paint Horse Association and Jockey Club.
He is also survived by two daughters, Carey Oliver of Osawatomie and Nancy Free of Red Oak, Iowa; one son, Jim Farrar of Westphalia; one brother, Kenneth Charles Farrar of Redding, Calif.; and four grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Jones VanArsdale Funeral Home in Lebo. Burial will be at Lincoln Cemetery in Lebo. The family will meet friends from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions to the USO or Future Farmers of America may be sent in care of the funeral home, 107 W. Sixth St., Lebo, KS 66856.