Visitation: 3-5 p.m. May 22 at Adams Funeral Home, Ozark.
Funeral: 5 p.m. May 22 at Adams Funeral Home, Ozark.
John Robert Farthing was born in Jefferson City on Jan. 12, 1937, to Jennie (Taylor) and Jack Farthing. He died May 18, 2015, after a brief illness.
John graduated from Ozark High School in 1955, and the University of Missouri in 1959, where he was a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity. He met Nancy O’Bryant during college, and they married in October 1959. After 53 years of marriage, Nancy died following a long illness. John again found great hope and happiness when he met Gudrun Weinsaft, to whom he was deeply devoted. They married in November 2014.
After graduating from college, John began working at Ozark Wholesale Grocers, his father’s company. He later joined McKesson Wine & Spirits. He entered the financial services industry as an investment broker for Stifel Nicolaus for 25 years, retiring in December 2014. John was a member of the Vestry at Christ Episcopal Church, a former member of the Board of Directors for Wilson’s Creek Battlefield Foundation and spent many hours working on his family’s farm near Ozark.
John cherished time with friends and family. He had a large, loyal group of lifelong friends. To those friends, and to Gudrun, John’s children express their profound gratitude.
John is survived his wife Gudrun; daughters, Julia Maslanka (Bill) of Lower Gwynedd, Pennsilvania, and Elizabeth Bitterman (Steve) of Glenside, Pennsilvania; a son, Jack Farthing, of St. Louis; sisters, Jane Wheeler (Jim) of Boulder, Colorado, and Mary Adams (Dean) of Ozark; granddaughters, Georgia, Grace and Lily Bitterman of Glenside, Pennsilvania; three nieces; a nephew; sister-in-law, Linda O’Bryant, of Chicago, Illinois; Gudrun’s children, Kevin Stehr (Mel) of Laguna Beach, California, Andrew Stehr (Susan) of Seattle, Washington, and Christina Radocha, of Santa Monica, California.
In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to the charity of the donors’ choice.
