Eleanor Newby

Published 7:51 pm Friday, March 18, 2016

The graveside service for Eleanor Virginia Farrar Newby, 96, of Athens is 11 a.m. Saturday, March 19 at Roselawn Cemetery . Visitation will begin at 10:30.

Mrs. Newby was born May 4, 1919, and raised in Birmingham. She moved to Athens in 1981. Mrs. Newby was a member of Isom’s Chapel United Methodist Church.

Mrs. Newby was preceded in death by her husband, William Merritt Newby; her mother, Mabel Canterbury Farrar; her father, Sam Cross Farrar Sr.; her brothers, Sam Cross Farrar Jr. and Larston Dawn Farrar; sisters, Mabel Catherine Farrar, Marjorie Farrar Bennett and Frances Farrar Black; and her son, William Merritt “Bill” Newby Jr.

Mrs. Newby is survived by her daughter, Virginia Ann Newby Wood; her son, Robert Scott Newby; two grandsons, Anthony Leon Wood, and Austin T. Rodgers Cullman; three granddaughters, Kimberly Newby of Warner Robbins, Georgia, Katelin Newby of Hueytown and Isabel Newby of Cullman; Seven great-grandsons, Anthony Wood Andrew Wood, Austin Wood and Alexander Wood, all of Birmingham, Alexander Kai Newby and Ashersage Newby of Warner Robbins, and Eli Rodgers of Cullman.

Mrs. Newby requested, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to your favorite charity.