NATCHEZ — Memorial Services for Jemmy Sue Garraway Farrier of Baton Rouge, will be at noon Saturday, Dec.10, 2011, at Trinity Episcopal Church in Natchez. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until service time in Kuehnle Hall.

Jemmy Sue was born Jan. 14, 1940, in Monticello, the first of three daughters of James Dwight and DeLores Jolly Garraway.

She grew up in Natchez and graduated with the class of 1958 from Natchez High School and then attended Mississippi Southern College. During high school she was a Rebelette and best known for her outgoing personality and fun, often mischievous, nature. She was elected best dancer her senior year.

Farrier lived her entire adult life in Baton Rouge and worked for IBM several years and later for the law firm of Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson. She was an avid tennis player and enjoyed cooking, watching Louisiana State University football and baseball and having dinner parties with her husband Jim Farrier. She loved music of many genres but her passion for and knowledge of jazz and down home blues exceeded that of ordinary listeners.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband James Farrier; his two children, Celeste and Jamie; one sister, Joe Karen Bray; her son Samuel Garraway Truly; and her beloved Himalayan cat of 18 years, Tuna Ann.

Survivors include two daughters, Tracy Militello and husband Randy of Baton Rouge and Chandler Montgomery Smith and husband Joe of Hernando; one son, Ben Byron Montgomery Jr. of Tylertown; three grandsons, Sean and Luke Militello of Baton Rouge and Charles Chandler of Tylertown; one sister, Jack Kelly of Natchez; one nephew, Mansell Lancaster of Natchez; one niece, Sally Lancaster of Hattiesburg; one great niece, Avery Friedman of Stamford, Conn.; and her aunt, Cleta Burt, age 101 and counting, of McComb.

To wherever it is departed souls go, we fancy thinking Jemmy Sue has reconnected with Connie Cauthen, as the rest of her sisterhood, Billy Kurtz Zettler, Caroline Harrington, Bonnie Carter, Marsha Graham and Babette Bartholomew hang back, holding dear the memories. Hail and farewell, dear Jemmy Sue.