{"id":5089,"date":"2012-03-21T11:35:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=5089"},"modified":"2012-03-21T11:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T17:37:12","slug":"anita-farley-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/03\/anita-farley-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Farley, 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Farley, age 73, of Dunnellon, FL, went to be with her Lord on March 16, 2012. Born in St. Petersburg, FL, she lived in Lehigh Acres for over twenty years where she and her husband Joe owned and operated the Farley Funeral Home, until their retirement in 1986. She was most successful in, and proud of, her primary role as a wife and mother, but also made time to serve her community. Anita actively served as president for the Lehigh Acres Jr. Women&#8217;s Club, in Girl Scouts, Riverdale Band Boosters and as a member of the Christ United Methodist Church. She also spearheaded the Alva Middle School Restoration Project. In retirement, she and Joe became involved in the Everglades Florida Unit of Wally Byam Caravan Club International (WBCCI). They traveled the world as caravan staff for many years. After settling in Dunnellon in 1991, Anita was an active member of the First United Methodist Church of Dunnellon and the Florida Springs Unit of WBCCI. Anita is survived by her husband of 56 years, Joseph; daughters Joanne Bryant (David), Susie Prescott (Tim), and LeaAnne Werder (Bruce); sister Eva Gosford (Bob); granddaughters Lauren Bryant, Kendall Ragans, and Kaley Werder; grandsons Derek Bryant, Kam Werder (Josephine), Taylor Ragans, and J.P. Prescott. Anita was eagerly awaiting the arrival of her first great-grandchild in May. Visitation will be held on Friday, March 23rd from 1 &#8211; 3 PM at the First United Methodist Church of Dunnellon, 21501 W. Highway 40, Dunnellon, Florida, 33431, with a celebration of life beginning at 3 PM. A graveside service will be held at Venice Memorial Gardens, 1950 Center Road, Venice, FL on Saturday, March 24th at 11 AM. Memorial donations may be directed to the Mortgage Fund of First United Methodist Church of Dunnellon. Farley Funeral Home, Venice Chapel is handling arrangements.<br \/>\nTo send condolences visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleyfuneralhome.com\/\" target=\"_new\">www.farleyfuneralhome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anita Farley, age 73, of Dunnellon, FL, went to be with her Lord on March 16, 2012. Born in St. Petersburg, FL, she lived in Lehigh Acres for over twenty&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}