Farmer, Elsie Elliott Caldwell

Elsie Elliott Caldwell Farmer, of Roanoke and Pearisburg, Va., and formerly of Keystone, W.Va., passed away on Thursday, November 11, 2010, at Friendship Health Care Center in Roanoke, Va. Mrs. Farmer was born on February 7, 1909, in Goodwins Ferry, Va., and was a daughter of the late Robert Gleason Caldwell and Emma Sue Scott Caldwell. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Clinton Everett Farmer, of Keystone, W.Va., whom she married on August 21, 1923, in Pearisburg. Mr. Farmer was employed at Eastern Associated Coal where he retired as Station Boss in 1964. Mr. Farmer passed away on December 15, 1968. She was also preceded in death by two sons, Robert Everett Farmer and Samuel David Farmer; two daughters, Virginia Farmer Blankenship and Irene Farmer Dowell; four sisters, Lucille Caldwell Snyder, Nina Linkous Hurst, Ellie Mae Caldwell Meredith, and Hazel Caldwell Linkous; and two brothers, Emmett Windford Caldwell and Carl Gleason Caldwell. She is survived by one son, James Clinton Farmer and wife, Judith, of Roanoke, Va.; special daughter-in-law, Nancy P. Farmer; 17 grandchildren; 30 greatgrandchildren; and six greatgreat-grandchildren. Funeral Services will be conducted 2 p.m. on Monday, November 15, 2010, at the Givens Funeral Chapel in Pearisburg with Dr. Don McKinney officiating. Burial will follow in Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton, W.Va. The family will receive friends at the Givens Funeral Home on Monday one hour before the service from 1 to 2 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to The Wounded Warrior Project, 7020 AC Skinner Pkwy., Suite 100, Jacksonville, Fla. 32256 or to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, 3300 East Sunrise Drive, Tucson, Ariz. 85718. Online condolences can be sent to the family at givensfuneralhome.com.