Tom Farrow Obituary

Tom Farrow

Hearts were shocked and saddened when Tom Farrow passed away suddenly at his home in Maury City at 4:30 Friday afternoon of a heart attack. He was 73.

Funeral services were conducted by R. E. Black at the Church of Christ of which he was a faithful member, having obeyed the Gospel early in life he served his Lord and Master untiringly until the end.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mary Farrow; a son, Brodie Farrow of Humboldt; a daughter, Mrs. Malcolm Edwards of Camden, Tenn.; four grand children, William Ha_ Redmond of Memphis, Paul Farrow Redmond of Maury City, James Mahlon Farrow and Gloria Dean Farrow of Humboldt; three sisters, Mrs. Kate Barow and Mrs. Lou Graves of Humboldt, Mrs. Alice Daniel of Bells; a brother, D. E. Farrow of Bells and a host of relatives and friends to mourn his passing.

Evans & Lasiter Funeral Home in charge of funeral arrangements.

The Crockett Times
Alamo, Tenn.
Thursday, January 30, 1947

In Loving Memory of Thomas J. Farrow

This 20th day of January, 1947 is your birthday dear papa. You would have been 74 had you lived. Your sweet spirit having taken its flight into that boundless beyond suddenly, yet peacefully, on Friday afternoon, Sept. 27, 1946. We miss you more and more as the days come and go, your cheerful smile, the sound of your kind voice, and your footsteps as you arose early in the mornings and went about your daily tasks. When the church assembles for worship, your absence seems so strange, for you were always there. Our loneliness and sorrow would be indeed unbearable were it not for that bright hope and assurance that your precious soul is resting in peace, yes that blessed peace that passeth understanding.

I would like on this my father's birthday to write an appropriate memorial of him, this, I could not do justice to his life, but some of his outstanding characteristics I shall mention. His life was one of consecrated Christian service, pure and simple, a heart full of love for all that pertained to a clean life and Godliness. He abbored evil in its every form, and shunned the very appearance of it. So unselfish and humble, yet so firm, his faith steadfast, hope never wavering, his convictions being prompted by a true knowledge of God's word, he was immovable in those things that he knew to be right. "Ever Abounding in the work of the Lord."

For a very long time, there has been hanging on the wall at home these words in large letters and framed, "But seek ye FIRST the Kingdom of God." I could not appreciate the worth of this quotation though it fell from the lips of the Saviour, until I saw him live it out so faithfully and tirelessly in his every day life and in doing this he was laying up treasure in Heaven.

On that never to be forgotten Friday afternoon in September when Eternity claimed his soul, I knew he could say with David, "Yea tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."

I thank God for his life, his influence for good and am happy in the thought that he was so perfectly prepared for that great change of which finite minds know so little, but one glad day he will come in to the fullest realization of all for which he sighed Life everlasting and a home eternal in that "land that is fairer than day." "For in that morn your angel face shall smile, which we have loved long since, and lost awhile."