November 24, 2024

Lena Rachel Farr Russell

Lena Rachel Farr Russell, age 90, died Saturday, November 14, 2015 at the High Plains Retirement Village in Lakin, Kansas. She was born on April 30, 1925 in Logan County, Kansas the daughter of James Wiley and Ida Elizabeth Patton Farr.

She was a member of the Baptist Faith and a member of the Scott City Community until 2006. 

On Feb 6, 1941 she married Orval E. Russell in Campus, Kansas. He died on May 7, 2001.

Survivors include four children; Richard Russell of Holcomb, Kansas; Roberta LeClair of Garden City, Kansas; Roger Russell of Pennsylvania; Monica Schwab of Maine; 16 grandchildren, and 20 Great Grandchildren.

Lena was preceded in death by one daughter, Barbara Green; one son, Myron Russell; three grandsons; six sisters; five brothers.

Funeral services will be Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 2:00 P.M. at Price and Sons Funeral Home in Scott City, Kansas.

Open Calling hours will be from 1:30-8:00 p.m. Monday and 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. at Price and Sons Funeral Home in Garden City, Kansas and from 10:00 – Noon at Price nd Sons Funeral Home in Scott City, Kansas.

Interment will be in the Scott County Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Lena Russell Memorial Fund.