Sarah Louise Farrar Obituary (1935 - 2023)

Sarah Louise Farrar, 87, of Decatur, IL went home to the Lord, Friday, November 17, 2023, in her late daughter's "little house", holding her granddaughter's hand. A private family funeral service will be held Friday, November 24, 2023, at Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Home, Mt. Zion. Burial will be in Point Pleasant Cemetery, Long Creek. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association. Messages of condolence may be sent to the family at dawson-wikoff.com. Sarah was born on New Year's Eve, 1935 in Latham, IL the daughter of Eugene and Rosa (Poe) Doty. After graduating from Decatur High School, she married her high school sweetheart, C. Dean Hays, then moved to Ponca City, OK, where Sarah worked as a nurse's aide at the local hospital. They had two daughters. She returned to Illinois some years later to be near her family. In the summer of 1969, she married her beloved late husband, Glenn R. Farrar. He preceded her in death on October 7, 2021. For many years she was a member of Pilgrim Lutheran Church. She worked at A.W. Cash Valve Mfg. Co. until she retired. Sarah loved staying busy in the garden, pulling weeds and watching True Crime. She made the best homemade ice cream and enjoyed hosting cookouts in her backyard. She looked forward to morning coffee with the "Doty Girls". Sarah loved to take care of people. She was always content and never had a bad thing to say. Her family rejoices in know they will hear her say she is doing "fair, fair-to-middlin' " again one day. Sarah is survived by her daughter: Laura Lowry of Montreal, MO; sister: Barbara Rohman of Decatur; grandchildren: Shelby Karch-Hays (Phillip Having) of Cerro Gordo and Jacob Lowry of Montreal, Mo; great-grandchildren: Emma Rose Lowry and Grayson Lowry; and step-children: Jane Jones of Decatur, Richard Farrar of Decatur, and Daniel Farrar (Susan) of Decatur; sixteen step-grandchildren; thirty step-great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Sarah is proceeded in death by her husbands, parents, her daughter: Carrie Hays, sister, brother, brothers-in-law and her sister-in-law.