Judith Luhe Farmer

Judith Luhe Farmer, 72, peacefully passed away on Thursday, November 20, 2014 in her home in Tega Cay, South Carolina. She was born in Manhattan, Kansas on April 26, 1942 to Jack Christensen and Pauline Boyd Luhe. She grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska and Denver, Colorado. After she earned her Bachelor's degree in Communication Disorders from the University of Nebraska and her Master's degree in the same field from Colorado State University she worked in Delaware as a Speech-Language Pathologist. She then joined the National Speech and Hearing Survey through Colorado State University where she met her husband, Stephen Farmer. They were married in 1969 in Lincoln, Nebraska and then moved to Michigan where Judy took a job working at a Speech and Language Preschool in Grand Rapids, Michigan for one year. She then joined Stephen at the Constance Brown Hearing and Speech Center for three years followed by one year as the first Speech-Language Pathologist in the Bronson Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She then followed Stephen to Las Cruces, New Mexico to become a Professor at New Mexico State University where she spent more than 30 years educating, mentoring and inspiring students. Judy retired from NMSU in 2005 and two years later she and Steve, with the help of their son, Christopher, moved across the country to Tega Cay, South Carolina to be with their daughter, Bethany, son-in-law, Daniel, and their daughters, Katelyn and Brielle as well as to be closer to Christopher, his wife, Heather and daughter Lillian. Here she enjoyed being involved in the community by playing Bridge each week and being a member of the Tega Cay Women's Club and a part of the local knitting group. She enjoyed the Charlotte Symphony, the Charlotte Ballet and the Winthrop Department of Theatre and Dance events as well as the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens and Charlotte art museums. She is survived by her loving husband of 45 years, Stephen; their two children, Christopher James Farmer and his wife, Heather, of Leesburg, Virginia and Bethany Farmer Tuffy and her husband, Daniel, of Tega Cay, South Carolina; her two sisters, Christine Hejinian and Kathryn Luhe of San Francisco, California and three granddaughters, Katelyn and Brielle Tuffy and Lillian Farmer.

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