We will miss you Farron
Farron departed this earthly life on November 25, 2007. She was a great asset to LVS, not only because of her knowledge, but because of her willingness to help others. She was truly appreciated here at LVS by her friends, her colleagues, and her students. Her kindness and sense of humor stood out. We will never forget you Farron.
This page is dedicated to the memory of Farron and to those of us left behind who miss her.
Farron loved to be creative - and she loved Eloise. Farron was young at heart and had a sort of whimsical nature. Below are some fond memories of Farron and some of her special creations that helps to depict her life.
I am Eloise. I am six.
I like to be spoiled rotten, rotten, rotten and treated like the little princess that I am.
I lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvve room service.
I also love to pester my nanny and my mentor (ahem, I mean) my tutor. I can drive them wild, wild, wild!
Sometimes I throw a temper fit…..
…but not very often.
Yawwwwnnnn, I am growing bored, bored, bored with this conversation. For more information about my favorite subject (ME), go here and maybe here as well.
Regards,
Eloise
Never Grow-up, But Always Keep Growing
(No reason I just liked the thought & the drawing so I layered them.)
Follow the below links to view Farron’s sense of humor: http://www.cat-ti-tude.com/edu/vtoons2_week5.html
http://www.cat-ti-tude.com/edu/flashmx2_week2.html
Farron loved going to the Gulf Shores. Upon one of her returns she expressed her attachment to a “pink house”. Below is one of her articles about it.
Endings or Beginnings?
We had been thinking about and looking around at real estate and areas that we liked while we were here. Part of the *life goal* around here is to move the Cathouse to the beach. We had become extremely attracted to an area called Little Lagoon. It sits on a strip of land that is only 3-4 house lots wide with the Gulf on one side and the pretty little lagoon/lake on the other…NOT a swamp.
The day before we left we found a little house that we both felt at home with at once. A block from the beach and about a half a block [or less] from a private community fishing and crabbing pier. It doesn’t look like it is in the cards right now, but you never can tell with us…and I haven’t quit pestering the real estate agents with my usual four hundred and thirty eight questions yet. [All who have had me as a student will now be sending out a large sigh in sympathy for the poor fellow…haha] Thought you might want to peek:
Farron took some fantastic pictures of scenery and nature - but she was also great at taking pictures of unusual things as well. Below are some of those:
Leaving our mark on the Alabama Shore (April 27 - May 4, 2002) 
Runaway Shoes:
And of course who can forget her red hot chili peppers?!!!
Service for Farron will be on Thursday:
Hermitage Funeral Home 535 Shute Lane Old Hickory, TN 37138 (615) 889-0361If anyone wishes to give a donation, it can be sent to:
General Hospital Breast Health Center c/o Friends In General Attn: Mark Overlock 1818 Albion St. Nashville, TN 37208
November 29th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Farron, we miss you today and will miss you for many, many moons to come. We know that you’re in a much better place now (doing your own dance of life with Eloise no doubt) and hope that the lessons you learned during your life time will help you on your future paths You taught many students the value of good coding and those people will help others to achieve the same high standards. Those students will be moved to teach others and so the circle continues. Ripples continue out from the epicenter…Farron, you were most definitely one of those at the very center of that epicenter.
We celebrate your sense of humor, although it may be through tears for now, those memories bring smiles to our faces and joy to our hearts..
Your obvious joy of life and learning will live on in the hearts of many, many people. Though your physical body may be gone, your spirit has not died and never will. It lives on in all the folks that you touched over the years both before you joined our LVS Family and during that time.
Be at Peace, my friend, and know that you live on in our hearts.
With much Love,
Vikki
November 29th, 2007 at 2:56 am
Land of Heart’s Desire,
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, Time an endless song.
WB Yeats (1894)
Those lovely photographs that Farron took, the Pink House she would never live in, the pride she took in her work and her too early death bring these lines to mind. So sorry never to have met you Farron .
November 29th, 2007 at 10:24 am
I will not forget you Farron. It was through you that I learned what I needed to refine the coding I had done in order to keep my web page going. Thank you for all you taught me. You will be dearly missed by all who knew you.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Ohhhhhh, dear Farron. Though we really didn’t know each other all that well, I still remember our wonderful emails back and forth re you posting my class evals. What an awful time to become an angel and my heart goes out to your loved ones and the loss they must be feeling during this Holiday Season. I do hope they can read our feeble words of sympathy and find some comfort in the fact that you were loved and will not be forgotten.
This page is a beautiful tribute to you and your life, Farron and, in looking at your photo, the pictures and all, I can only say that I regret your passing and the chance to know you better.
I’d like to close with these words, paraphrased, (which I put on my father’s headstone):
NO WOMAN IS INDISPENSABLE, BUT SOME ARE IRREPLACEABLE!
My LVS friend, may you rest in peace and free from pain, knowing that you were loved and will be missed by so many!
Aloha oe,
Hillary
November 29th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
You are surely missed. I’m sorry I never had the opportunity to know you, as I’m a newcomer…
God bless you…
Mary Pace
November 30th, 2007 at 2:21 am
I’m so sorry to hear this. I really enjoyed Farron and her classes. Peace be with her and her family.
Anita
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:11 am
Farron,
I’ve had the pleasure of being one of your students and when I heard the news today, I shed a tear for us. No, not for you, as I know you are in a much better place now, at peace with everything and not hurting. I shed a tear for us, for those that never knew you and for those that were touched by your life. I will never forget all of the wonderful posts you left, all the examples you gave. Hopefully, in some small way, your coding will live on in the pages I hope to design in the future. Be at peace, my friend.
san
December 5th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
I am saddened to hear of Farron’s passing. I was lucky to be in several classes with her, laughing at her antics and admiring her wonderful work. She was a loving and talented lady, and will be greatly missed. My prayers go out to her family and her fellow instructors at LVS.
mslib
December 11th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
To all at LVS and to all who knew Farron,
Thanks so much for all of your thoughts, prayers, and kind words. It is good to know how much Farron will be missed not only for her crazy personality but for her knowledge as well.
Farron had a tremendous impact on my life and I will deeply miss her. She was my soulmate, my better half, my partner in crime, an imp, a scamp, a princess, an artist, and a true blue friend, among many other things, and I feel as though a part of my very being has been torn away. I miss seeing her sitting at her computer working with her students ans so does “The Cat”!
When Farron started with the computer, I never thought she would go as far with it as she did but as she was fond of reminding me: “Thats what you get for thinkin’!” with an Eloisian smirk! She loved having fun and I know that she would not have worked as hard as she did learning her computer skills if she didn’t enjoy it. (Even though she had to learn vectors! I remember the cat howls on those classes!) She was very proud of her accomplishments, but she valued her friendships with all of you at LVS much more than her own accomplishments. Thats just the way she was.
Farron, thank you for the love you gave, you will be missed.
and until we meet again
Love Always
Tony
And Tchaikovsky too!