Stella G. Farmer

1925-2017

Stella G. Farmer, of Georgetown, KY, and formerly of Lancaster, KY, passed away on June 24, 2017. She was born August 16, 1925 in Norwich, England, the daughter of the late Isaac and Jane Elizabeth Lovick, both deceased.

She met and married Donald A. Farmer while he was stationed at a U.S. Air Force facility near Norwich during the early to mid- 1950s. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1981.

She was an active member of the Lancaster United Methodist Church while living in Lancaster, and at her passing, was a member of the Georgetown First United Methodist Church.

She served in the British Women’s Army, (the Territorial Auxiliary Service) during World War II, from February 1942 to June 1946. She was assigned to an artillery regiment in Southeast England (near London and the English Channel) as a telephone operator. Her job was to plot on a “grid”, information received from “spotters” as to the position and path of enemy aircraft as they approached England from bases in Europe. This information was very useful to the Royal Air Force fighter planes in the early interception and destruction of enemy aircraft.

She is survived by her husband of 62+ years, Don; one daughter, Linda Cornett (Robert), Georgetown, KY; a grandson, Matthew; three granddaughters, Mallory Smith, (Nicholas), Silver Springs, MD; Hannah, a student at Georgetown University Law School, and Sydney, a student at Eastern Kentucky University; and one great-grandson, Aiden Erenberg of Silver Springs, MD.

She was preceded in death by three sisters, Lily Dall (John), Doris Smith (Walter), and Edna Dunnell (Harry) all of Norwich, England; also two brothers, Phillip Lovick (Bridget) of Cambridge, England, and Derrick Lovick of Utarp, Germany.

Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. on Friday, June 30, 2017 in the Chapel of Spurlin Funeral Home in Lancaster, KY. Visitation will be followed by a Memorial Service at 7 p.m. with Rev. Bob Coppings and Rev. Greg Gallaher officiating. Spurlin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Interment will be at a later date in Green Acres Memory Gardens, Crossville, TN.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to the charity of your choice.