Mrs. Katherine Mimi June Briery Farmer

Shreveport, LA- Funeral services celebrating the life of Katherine June Briery Farmer, 93, will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 in the chapel of Centuries Memorial Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Centuries Memorial Park. Visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. until service time on Wednesday.

Katherine was born on December 14, 1922 in Converse, LA to parents, Pearl Beatrice Ammons and Charles Henry Briery of Converse, LA (formerly of Kansas) and passed from this life to the next on June 27, 2016 in Shreveport, LA. She graduated from Vivian High School and then supported her country during WWII building B 29’s in Ft. Worth, TX, and then making bombs at the ammunitions plant just outside of Ruston, LA where she met her husband of 30 years, Joseph Morris Farmer of Choudrant, LA. After a short stint as a telephone operator in Ruston, she and her husband moved to Shreveport, LA, raised their daughters and demonstrated throughout her life the very best example of being a prayer warrior.

Mrs. Farmer was preceded in death by her parents and siblings, John Henry Briery, Doyline Briery McWilliams and Charles Arthur Briery.

Left to cherish beautiful memories of Katherine is her youngest sibling, Geraldine Briery Rathburn, lovingly known as Aunt Jerry; two daughters, Janis Farmer Burns of Shreveport and Jacqueline Farmer Keish of Dallas, TX. Katherine lovingly known as “Mimi” left this legacy that includes four grandchildren, Katherine Burns Walker and husband Todd (their children, Riley O’Quinn Walker, Jackson Todd Walker, Presley Jan Walker and Sydney Shea Walker) of Shreveport, LA, Ragan Nathaniel Burns and wife Alicia (their children, August Nathaniel Burns, Lucy Kay Burns and Bodhi Averitt Burns) of Shreveport, LA, Mackenzie Keish Trofholz and husband Terry (their children, Jaxton Kent Trofholz, Kade Walker Trofholz and Knox Christian Trofholz) of Bentonville, AR and Morgan Keish Fields and husband Travis of San Francisco, CA. She is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.

Even as she was near the end of her life when her mind became foggier, she would lift out of the fog to pray for her nurses and family members. Special thanks to her faithful caregivers, Earnestine Bryant and Crystal Guillory. If anything is true of Katherine’s life it is this, “Her children arise up and call her blessed.”-Proverbs 31:28

We will miss her.

You may share words of comfort with the family by visiting www.centuriesmemorialfh.com