Pearl DeLong McFarlin

© Enid News and Eagle

06-1989

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

Freedom – The funeral for Pearl McFarlin, 95, who died Monday at Pioneer Lodge in Coldwater, Kansas, will be at 10 AM Thursday at Wharton Funeral Chapel in Alva. The Rev. Glen McMurphy will officiate. Burial will be in Freedom Cemetery.

Pearl DeLong was born June 13, 1894, at Victoria in Knox County, Illinois. At the age of six, she moved to Oklahoma, settling in Old Freedom on a claim 1/2 mile east of Freedom. She attended rural grade school, later moving to Alva where she attended Northwestern High School and Normal College. She received her teacher's certificate, then taught school at Edith Grade School.

On March 6, 1921, she married Noah McFarlin in her parents home at Edward, Missouri. They lived in McPherson, Kansas, and Ponca City where he worked in the oil fields. They returned to the Freedom area and lived on the Homestead that his father had claimed in the Edith community, later moving into Freedom where they managed a produce station. They then moved to Waynoka and operated and managed a feed store for Simpson Walker Jr.

After her husband's death on November 13, 1955, she moved back to Freedom. She entered the nursing home in 1974.

She was a member of Old Freedom Methodist Church, American Legion Auxiliary and a past noble grand of Freedom Rebekah Lodge. She also was an amateur photographer.

Surviving are nieces and nephews.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by two sisters and one brother.

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