Claudia Joan McNeely (McFarland) died peacefully on March 9, 2024, surrounded by her family in the final days of her life. Services will be conducted on Saturday March 23, 2024 at Memorial Funeral Home with Visitation beginning at 11 AM and a Memorial Service to follow at Noon.
Claudia was born on September 13, 1952, to Walter "Mac" and Betty McFarland in Poplar Bluff, MO. She received a Bachelor of Art in Education with a minor in Art from Southwest Baptist University. She held positions with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis before staying home to care for her daughters in Edwardsville, IL.
Claudia was an artist and accomplished seamstress who loved listening to Motown music, gardening, and hunting for the best deals. She had fond memories of trips to the ocean and clear turquoise waters. Claudia will be remembered for her resilience in facing and battling her decades-long illness.
She was survived by her daughter Erin McNeely of Columbia, MO, daughter Clary Pfeiffer, and son-in-law Travis Pfeiffer of Edwardsville, IL, sister Lisa Wells, and brother-in-law Robert Wells of Columbia, MO, nieces Ashton and Chelsea Wells, grandchildren Hughes and Jettie Pfeiffer, and her beloved mother; Betty McFarland of Columbia, MO. She was preceded in death by her father, Walter "Mac" McFarland.
Claudia's family will be forever thankful for the love and care provided to Claudia in the final years of her life by her daughter Erin and the staff at Villas at Blue Ridge. May Claudia rest in peace, free from pain and surrounded by eternal love.
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