Services for Gloria Elizabeth Farrar, of Wesson, were 10 a.m.Friday, May 29, at Strong Hope Baptist Church with burial inBeauregard Cemetery. Stringer Family Funeral Services in Hazlehurstwas in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Farrar, 78, died May 26, 2009, at Mississippi BaptistMedical Center in Jackson.

She was a native of Vicksburg. She graduated from Clinton HighSchool and Mississippi College with a Bachelor of Arts degree ineducation. She formerly lived in Jackson, where she taught forseveral years. She moved to Wesson in 1975 and worked at ModernEngineering for several years. She was a member of Strong HopeBaptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her first and secondhusbands; her three infant children; and a brother, William “Billy”Jefferson Allen Jr.

Survivors are her sons, Peter M. Lawrence and wife, Vallerie, ofCrystal Springs, and Timothy A. Lawrence and wife, Gretchen, ofWesson; a daughter, Gloria E. Turner and husband, Isaac, of Wesson;her sisters, Barbara Sprout, Gladys Beatty and Linda Axton, all ofDallas, Texas; her 11 grandchildren, Van Turner, Kim Runyan, BradTurner, David Lawrence, Brandy Lawrence, Melissa Lawrence, TimothyLawrence Jr., Russell Lawrence, Joe Turner, Justin Turner and AprilCline; and her 21 great-grandchildren.