Edrie Louise Gray Farmer

June 8, 1929 - April 3, 2018

Edrie Louise Gray Farmer, 88, quietly and peacefully passed away Tuesday afternoon, April 3,2018. Louise was born June 8, 1929 in Las Vegas, New Mexico to Timothy Scott and Clara Gracey French Gray. The second of eight children, she grew up during the Great Depression and World War II and graduated from Roswell High School in 1947. Louise was an avid sports fan, especially baseball, and played in summer leagues. January 1, 1947 she met Sgt. Lonnie "Jack" Farmer. They were married May 31, 1947. in the following decades they reared three children while living in New Mexico and Texas. They settled in Jack County near Perrin, Texas where they raised cattle until the death of Jack in 2000. Louise then became an ordained home missionary until she retired and moved to Hill Villa Retirement Center in Fort Worth, in 2013. Louise was preceded in death by her husband and parents as well as brothers Clifford Gray and Richard Gray and sisters Betty Casper, Jackie Bills and Lynn Newmann. She is survived by her children: Constance Price and husband Scott of Azle, John Farmer and wife Eileen of Graham, and Roger Farmer of Perrin; grandchildren Brenda Farmer, John Farmer and wife Naomi, Olivia Green and husband Bob, and Kathryn Lipsey and husband Mike; great grandchildren Rainey Harvey, Ryan Treadaway, Annie Treadaway, Bobby Green, Patrick Lipsey, Savanna Lipsey, Maddy Lipsey, Ciera Saiz, and Mya Saiz; great-great grandchildren Quenton Harvey and Mellie Hardin. Sister Jean Nettles and brother Tim Gray and 50 nieces and nephews. Louise has been a Christian since she was 12 years old and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Perrin.