of Little Rock, AR

August 22, 1913 - May 23, 2015

Quelle Hayes Farrar, 101, died peacefully on May 23, 2015. She was born August 22, 1913 in Norphlet, to Marvin and Sallie Martin Hayes. She was the eldest of three daughters. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Walter Ray Farrar, and two sisters, Lovie Hayes York and Opal Hayes Carey.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Sarah Farrar Dodson and David Dodson, of Little Rock, and by four nephews: Fred Hayes York, of Columbia, SC, Mike York, of Florence, SC, Glenn Carey, of Holiday Island, AR, and Dale Carey, of Norphlet. For the past 45 years she also loved her son-in-law's family: JoAnn and the late Charlie Lewis, Nancy Lamb, Robert and Brenda Dodson, and Laura and Mike Jones.

Quelle grew up during the Oil Boom in Norphlet and had many tales to tell of that exciting time. She had a life-long interest in genealogy, and descended from several of the early families of Union County, including: Hayes, Martin, Craig, Connor, Bolding and Ogden. She enjoyed gardening and worked in her yard well into her 90s. She fed birds and enjoyed identifying new ones.

She attended ElDorado Junior College for 2 years. During her long life she worked at a variety of jobs including: having a small mursery school, secretary to Superintendent of Norphlet Schools, post office clerk, dental assistant, chemist technician at the ElDorado Ordinance Plant during the War (where she met her husband), nurse's aide at Warner Brown Hospital, and for several years was a substitute teacher in Norphlet Schools, grades 1-8.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the Southern Arkansas University Foundation, P.O. Box 9174, Magnolia, AR 71753, in memory of Quelle Hayes Farrar.

Graveside services will be held Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 11:00 A.M., at Hayes Cemetery in Norphlet.

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