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Jack McFarland, Jr.
[Handwritten: Fri, Apr. 11, 1986]
Services for Jack McFarland Jr., 81 year old business executive of Vestavia Hills, Birmingham, Alabama, were held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, April 4th, in Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham with Valley Chapel Funeral Home directing.
Mr. McFarland was born in the Oak Ridge-Bugtussle Community north of Ladonia on December 21, 1904, to Jack McFarland Sr. and Nodie Wall McFarland. Jack McFarland Sr. was the victim of an unusual incident when Jack Jr. was six months of age and he came with his mother to the Windom community, where he lived until he reached an adult age.
He received his education in the Flag Springs, Windom and Bonham Schools, graduating from Bonham High School in the class of 1922. Later he attended the University of Texas and East Texas State at Commerce.
For many years he was connected with the Dr. Pepper Company of Dallas and later became the owner of Falstaff Distributors, Inc., operating in Birmingham and throughout the State of Alabama.
Mr. McFarland was a long time member of the Valley Christian Church where he was program chairman for the Senior Citizen's Program until ill health forced his retirement. He was a member of the City Salesman's Club and The Club of Birmingham.
He is survived by his wife of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Jacqueline McFarland of Birmingham and Mrs. Nancy Dwyer of Brandon, Miss.; four grandchildren; two aunts, namely, Mrs. Mabel Stepp and Miss Nancy McFarland, residents of Grove Manor in Honey Grove, a large number of cousins, many of whom reside locally, and one brother, Judge Choice Moore of Windom, Texas, who, with his wife, attended the services in Birmingham.
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