Sharon Farm

DOD: APRIL 15,2024

PLACE OF DEATH: CRANES ROOST CARE

HOME: AZTEC NM

DATE OF BIRTH: NOVEMBER17,1936

BIRTHPLACE: GENEVA NEBRASKA

PARENTS' NAME: Harvey Greg Darling, Rev. and Ethel Alma (White) Darling

Sharon (well-known as “Shari”) Farm, beloved wife, loving mother, sweet friend, and very dedicated and caring teacher for 30-plus years, passed away recently to the very great sadness of her daughter Kim who loved her mother and cared for her with great compassion & empathy for 8 years.

Shari started teaching 4th grade, in Bloomfield, N.M, in the late 1960’s, then taught after those few years in Farmington, N.M. until the 1990’s, her last and very favorite years being teaching 1st grade at Country Club Elementary School, of which many people (now adults and business-people) today still remember her with fondness. Many have said, “she was my favorite teacher.” One, long-time teacher’s-aide and dearest friend said, “she was my favorite friend, the best years of my life were spent in her classrooms as a teacher’s assistant. Her students adored her (how could we not?) They learned so much there, such a happy place, laughter, songs, poetry, homemade cookies, and bread! Mrs. Farm was the best friend and teacher.” That is easy to imagine if anyone did or could have seen her classroom or visited her teaching. Her classrooms were always immaculate, neat, tidy, colorful and such a happy place for her students to come to daily. They were always greeted with her special smile, a hug, and always her love. Shari was truly a “master teacher” and one of the best of the best! She gave ALL she had to her students every year for all those long years.

She worked 7 days a week, always, only having Summers off, which were her family’s favorite times, having HER home with us. We had HER special joy then! Yet she still worked constantly! With a smile always! As a child, her daughter Kim would get woken up in the Summer with her hand being picked up and placed on a warm homemade chocolate chip cookie. That showed Shari’s love of fun, love to give, and love of her children – and what Summer was like when she was home as a child – WONDERFUL!

Gerald Farm had a dream to become a professional artist full-time. Shari gave up staying at home with her young 7-year-old son, Kirk Farm, and 3-year-old daughter, Kim, and looked for a job as a teacher, which she had a college degree in. So, the Farm family moved from BEAUTIFUL Loveland, Colorado, to Farmington, N.M. Her husband began his career as a professional artist- becoming an exceptionally fine artist, known all over and showing some of the finest galleries, having greeting cards, prints, limited edition prints, puzzles of his art, and beautiful bronze statues that he also excelled at. Shari always said she never regretted teaching as her doing so gave “the world her husband’s beautiful art.” That shows how much she loved her husband! Everything her husband accomplished was because of his loving wife working so hard, not just in her career, but at home doing everything a stay-at-home mother’s job did in those days – so that her husband could accomplish his dream. Truly sacrificial love like Shari’s is rare!!

Hard to believe that Shari had any spare time, but she was always cooking and baking! She was famous all over town by many people for her weekly plates of homemade two kinds of cookies, Swedish Butter Cookies, homemade peanut brittle, and homemade Honey Whole-Wheat Molasses beautiful round brown loaves of bread that took all day to make. She had no use for recipes as she made everything weekly from memory. If you saw her, be it weekly, monthly, every few months, or once a year, you got a plate of her delicious goodies. Gerald always said, “there Shari goes again, feeding the world.” And the world who got her plates for years never forgot them, nor her and the love she brought them with! Shari truly captured the spirit of unselfish giving, always with a smile, no matter how tired she was.

Shari’s husband’s art touched the world. However, Shari, ALWAYS behind him and his career, touched (WITH HER LOVE!) her husband’s life, her children’s lives, family, friends, dear neighbors, co-workers, business-people all over San Juan County, and groups she belonged to. It truly brought her joy to give!

Later in life she cared for her elderly mother. Now Kim knows where she learned about self-less giving at the end of life. Kim carries her mother’s love now every day! “NO REGRETS.”

Shari touched everyone’s life who ever knew her. Never has there been a more beautiful, loving, and giving heart.

FROM YOUR DAUGHTER

God made a wonderful mother, A Mother who never grows old; He made her smile from the sunshine. He molded her heart of pure gold; In her eyes He placed bright stars, in her cheek's fair roses, you see; God made a wonderful mother, And He gave the dear mother to me.

I LOVE AND MISS YOU MOM! I ALWAYS WILL! LOVE, YOUR DAUGTHER, KIM

In lieu of flowers the family of Sharon “Sheri” Farm would like donations to be made to the “Cranes Roost Care Home 104 S Park Ave, Aztec, NM 87410, (505) 333-2604” to help families that are struggling with the cost of care for their loved ones.