WATER VALLEY — Robert Harold McLean Farmer, 77, died Saturday, July 15, 2017, at his residence in Water Valley. A memorial service will be planned at a later date. Wells Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Along with his parents, he was preceded in death by step-children Deborah Jeanette Johnson and Ricky Wayne Dempsey.

He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Dora Chance Farmer of Water Valley; daughter Jennifer Lynn VanDeWeide of Cedar Lake, Indiana; son Robert Joseph “Marty” Farmer of Water Valley; step-daughter Tammy Denis Harvey of Scottsboro, Alabama; sister Verdie Ruth Schaefer of Harvey, Illinois; brother Alvie Odell Farmer of Florida; 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.