Crumpler, NC
June 23, 1944
April 8, 2011
Mrs. Erleen Farmer Lawrence, age 66, of Crumpler, passed, away Friday evening, April 8, 2011 at Margate Health & Rehab Center.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 12, at 11 a.m. at Boone Family Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Charlie McCoy and the Rev. Mike Farmer officiating. Burial followed in Ashelawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The family received friends from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, April 11, at Boone Family Funeral Home Chapel.
Mrs. Lawrence was born in Ashe County on June 23, 1944 to the late Everette Lester and Hester Elliott Farmer. She retired from Sara Lee Knit Products, where she worked in Quality Control, and after retirement she worked at Walmart as a Door Greeter. Erleen was known for her hard work. She will be missed by her family and friends.
She was also preceded in death by her husband, Daniel K. Lawrence, and two brothers, Paul Farmer and J.D. Farmer.
She is survived by two sons, Danny E. Lawrence and wife, Ronda, of Jefferson, and Denny Lawrence and wife, Tammy, of Galax, Va.; four brothers, Gale Farmer and wife, Judy, of Mountain City, Tenn., Dale Farmer and wife, Carolyn, of Creston, Jack Farmer and wife Volera, of Lansing, and E.H. Farmer and wife, Billie, of Creston; two sisters, Velma Hickman and husband, Richard, of Maryland and Joyce Pope and husband Bill, of Mountain City, Tenn.; two grandchildren, Kristy Shepherd and husband, David, of Lansing, and Megan Lawrence of Jefferson; two step grandchildren, Devin Hash and Ryan Hash; two sisters-in-law, Shirley Farmer of Lansing and Erleen Farmer of Jefferson; and several nieces nephews .
The family requests no food please! Flowers accepted or memorials may be made to the Leukemia Society of America, 2900 Eisenhower Ave. Suite 410, Alexandria, VA 22314.
The family met at the homeplace at 7111 Hwy. 221 North in Crumpler on Saturday.
You may give the family your condolences at our website www.boonefuneralhome.com.
Boone Family Funeral Home of West Jefferson is in charge of these arrangements.
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