Sarah Rives Dean and Eugene Dodson Farley

EUGENE DODSON FARLEY was born August 29, 1910 in Oshkosh, Winnebago, Wisconsin,¹⁶⁸ and died April 27, 2003.¹⁶⁸

He married SARAH RIVES DEAN on September 9, 1939 in Shawsheen Village, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts,^{2588, 2589} daughter of MARTHA BOWER and WILLIAM DEAN. She was born April 20, 1916 in Harrisonburg, Rockingham, Virginia,^{168, 56} and died December 30, 2002.^{56, 168}

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Children of SARAH RIVES DEAN and EUGENE DODSON FARLEY:

1. Son
2. Daughter
3. Son
4. Son

• Biographical information for Sarah Rives Dean: Sarah Dean Farley moved to California last March, where her husband is working for Shell Oil Co., in San Francisco. David Dean will be three years old in December.³⁹³⁷

Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, September 9, 1939²⁵⁸⁸

Announcement was made this week at Andover, Mass., by Mrs. William Dean of that city of the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Sarah Rives, and Dr. Eugene Dodson Farley, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Farley of this city. The wedding will take place in Andover, Mass., this month.

Miss Dean is a graduate of Abbot academy and Rollins college, from which she graduated in 1938. She is a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. Dr. Farley graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1931 and the University of Illinois in 1935. He is a member of Sigma Nu fraternity.

Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 28, 1939²⁵⁸⁹

Sarah Dean Is Married To Dr. Farley

HARRISONBURG—Miss Sarah Rives Dean, daughter of Mrs. William Dean of Andover, Mass., and the late Mr. Dean, former residents of Harrisonburg, became the bride of Dr. Eugene Dodson Farley of Oshkosh, Wis., on Saturday afternoon, September 9, at 3 o'clock. The ceremony was performed at the home of her brother James L. Dean, Shawsheen Village, Mass. The Rev. Frederick B. Noss of the Congregational Church officiated.

The house was decorated with white and pink gladiolus, roses, palms and ferns, banked against the fireplace and the stairway.

The bride, who was given in marriage by her brother, James L. Dean, wore a dotted white marquisette dress with floor length veil of illusion falling from a coronet of orange blossoms. She carried a bridal bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley and maiden hair fern. Her maid of honor, Miss Ann Roper of Rockford, Ill., wore peach marquisette with aquamarine ribbons and her hat was of aquamarine ostrich feathers with matching ribbons. She carried Joanna Hill rose and Transvaal daisies.

Dr. Farley had as his best man Edward Paige Dean, brother of the bride.

Mrs. Farley was graduated from Abbott Academy, class of '34, and from Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., in 1938. She is a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority.

Dr. and Mrs. Farley left after the wedding to visit Dr. Farley's family in Wisconsin and spent 10 days at his cabin on Three Lakes, before returning to Elizabeth, N. J., where they will reside.

Oregonian, January 11, 2003¹⁶⁸

Sarah Rives Farley

A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, 2003, in Valley Community Presbyterian Church in Portland for Sarah Rives Farley, who died Dec. 30, 2002, at age 86.

Sarah Rives Dean was born April 20, 1916, in Harrisonburg, Va. She graduated from Rollins College and moved in 1944 to Portland, where she was a homemaker. In 1939, she married Eugene D.

Survivors include her husband; sons, David D., James A. and Dr. Darryl D.; daughter, Susan A. Urzaa; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Remembrances to the church. Arrangements by Finley's.

Oregonian, May 3, 2003¹⁶⁸

Eugene Dodson Farley

A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 10, 2003, in Valley Community Presbyterian Church in Beaverton for Eugene Dodson Farley, who died April 27 at age 92.

Mr. Farley was born Aug. 29, 1910, in Oshkosh, Wis. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, received a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Illinois, and a law degree from Fordham University. He moved to Portland in the early 1940s and was a patent attorney in private practice. In 1939, he married Sarah Rives Dean; she died last December.

Survivors include his sons, David D., James A. and Darryl D.; daughter, Susan A. Urzaa; sister, Florence Peet Scholl; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Remembrances to Cedar Mill Library. Arrangements by Finley's.

Oregon State Bar Bulletin, August, 2003²⁵⁸⁷

Eugene Dodson Farley died April 27, 2003. He was born in 1910 in Oshkosh, Wis. He earned his A.B. in chemistry, physics and mathematics at the Wisconsin State University at Oshkosh, and in 1933, his M.S. in organic chemistry and bacteriology at the University of Illinois. He earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and moved to California in 1935, where he worked for Shell Oil as a senior chemist. Starting in 1937, he taught chemistry at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. (where his pupils included Donald Kram, Nobel laureate, and Sarah Reves Dean, his star pupil and wife of 63 years).

He worked in Standard Oil’s patent office in New Jersey, attended law school at Fordham University in New York City, and earned his J.D. in 1943. Eventually in 1944, he moved to Portland to open a private patent and trademark law practice. He and his wife lived in Portland for 59 years.

Fishing – all his life, up and down the east and west coasts – was a passion of Farley’s. His succession of cruiser boats were all named Pat Pending. From 1958-74, he had the distinction of never failing to catch a fish, even in rough water. Travel was another top priority, which he did globally, and by ship whenever possible. The lifelong boater toured the canals of England and Holland, sailed the Nile River in Egypt and traveled (in his late 70s) in a dugout canoe 1,200 miles down the Amazon. He wrote a collection of essays called 'Boating Bits and Snatches.' He once said, 'The trouble with ordinary people like you and me is that we can interest ourselves in many things.' This he certainly did.